+ Suicide and Firearm Prevalence: Are Youth Disproportionately Affected?
- Author:
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Birckmayer, Johanna / Hemenway, David
- Date:
- 2001
- Publication:
- Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior
- Topics:
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Adolescent, Age Group, Suicide
- Keywords:
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Gun ownership, Suicide, Youth, firearm suicide
Using data on U.S. deaths from the National Center for Health Statistics and estimates of regional gun ownership levels in the 9 U.S. Census regions from the General Social Survey 1979 to 1994, the authors...
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+ Homicide-Suicides in Fiji: Offense Patterns, Situational Factors, and Sociocultural Contexts
- Author:
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Adinkrah, Mensah
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior
- Topics:
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Crime, Domestic Violence, Homicide, Suicide
- Keywords:
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Fiji, Homicide-Suicide, intimate relations
The author uses official homicide-suicide data from the Murder and Manslaughter Register of the Fiji Police Force along with information from Fiji-based daily newspapers to examine all homicide-suicides...
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+ Uncovering the Mystery: Factors of African American Suicide
- Author:
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Willis, Leigh A. / Coombs, David W. / Drentea, Patricia / Cockerham, William C.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior
- Topics:
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Ethnicity, Suicide
- Keywords:
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Suicide, Violence, drug, household firearm, risk factor
The authors use data from the 1993 National Mortality Followback Survey to compare (for non-Hispanics) African American suicides with White suicides. Compared to Whites, risk factors for African American...
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