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Baller, Robert D.; Shin, Dong-Joon; Richardson, Kelly K. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2005
In an effort to explain the spatial patterning of violence, we expanded Sutherland's (1947) concept of differential social organization to include the level of deviance exhibited by neighboring areas. To test the value of this extension, the geographic clustering of Japanese suicide and homicide rates is assessed using 1985 and 1995 data for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Values, Social Influences, Proximity