Immigration and homicide in Milan : analysis of the phenomenon and comparison between national and non-eu victims

Introduction: the multiculturalism of Milan, with more than 90 different nationalities, involves inevitably legal integration problems with increasingly involvement of irregular people in crimes. Materials and methods: the authors reviewed the homicidal cases occurred in Milan from 1993 to 2008. Results and conclusions: From 1993 to 2008 571 cases of homicides were recorded in our historical files. The authors report the incidence of sex and age of the victims, type and site of injuries and type of conventional and not conventional weapons. Incidence in the ethnic groups of the victims.