ABSTRACT

Aim:

We aimed to investigate criminal cases under the age of 18 in the province of Kastamonu.

Materials and Methods:

Totally 79 forensic reports under the age of 18 issued between January 2007 and March 2008 in Kastamonu Forensic Medicine Division were evaluated retrospectively in terms of parameters such as age, gender, type of event, examinations.

Results:

Of the cases, 41 male (51.89%), 38 female (48.11%) were detected respectively. For the age group 15-16 were mostly asked to report. In this study, according to type of event, the effective action with 35.44% the cases was the first, event of a sexual nature was the second with 24.05%, and traffic accidents with 22.78% was in third place.

Conclusion:

Our study results were similar with studies performed in other cities. As distinc from, rate of women and men are close to each other. Also in our study, trauma and sexual abuse are more than traffic accident was determined