The effect of the economy as reflected by employment and unemployment rates on motor vehicle fatalities, suicides, and homicides is examined using several national databases. First, regression models are fit to these fatality data-overall as well as for a variety of age-race-gender subgroups. Then t
Suicide and homicide: Bias in the examination of the relationship between suicide and homicide rates
โ Scribed by David Lester
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1971
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 288 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1433-9285
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