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This chapter focuses on events resulting from purposeful acts involving the use of violent physical force, unlike “accidental” or unintentional injuries resulting from car crashes, falls, burns, poisonings, drownings, and so on. In intentional injuries, there is conscious intent to inflict injury or death. While many tend to think first of intentional injuries as the consequence of forceful acts involving two or more people, we must also consider suicide, a self-directed intentional injury.
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Fine, P.R., Rousculp, M.D., Tomasek, A.D., Horn, W.S. (1999). Intentional Injury. In: Raczynski, J.M., DiClemente, R.J. (eds) Handbook of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. The Springer Series in Behavioral Psychophysiology and Medicine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4789-1_14
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