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Social Integration and Suicide/Homicide in Japan and the United States
Author(s) -
Lester David,
Abe Kazuhiko
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1992.tb02851.x
Subject(s) - homicide , suicide prevention , suicide rates , poison control , suicide methods , injury prevention , criminology , human factors and ergonomics , identification (biology) , demography , geography , psychology , medical emergency , medicine , sociology , botany , biology
In Japan, economic factors were associated with the regional variations in suicide rates, unlike the United States where domestic factors (divorces and births) were associated with the regional variations in suicide rates. Homicide rates also had different social correlates in the two nations, indicating the importance of cross‐cultural studies for the identification of reliable phenomena.