Provoking police officers to kill oneself or "suicide by cop" (SBC) has received scholarly as well as public attention. The extent to which film representations of SBC reflect SBC in society in relation to danger, depression, and other features was assessed in this study. Data on cinematic portrayals of SBC are from 16 American films;…

Analyzed suicide and homicide rates by age for Canada and the United States. Found that suicide was higher in Canada and homicide was higher in United States. Results indicated positive association between homicide and suicide rates in United States, not in Canada. Concludes that two patterns in these two countries may be explained from historical…

Homicide rates in Canada have shown a decline since 1975, but there has been little empirical study of this trend. P. Holinger (1987) predicted and confirmed that the size of the cohort aged 15-24 in the United States population was associated with the rise and fall of the homicide rate in that country. This study was designed to test this…

Study indicates states with high urban homicide rates also had high rural homicide rates, but no such relationship was found with suicide rates. Social disintegration was strongly associated with urban and rural suicide rates; however, rural suicide rates were higher in states that were relatively more urbanized, and rural homicide rates were…

Time-series analysis of association between social indicators and suicide and homicide rates in United States from 1945 to 1984 and ecological analysis of same variables over continental states revealed that only divorce rates were consistently associated with suicide and with homicide rates (positively with both). (Author)

Compared social correlates of African-American statewide suicide rates to Caucasian rates. Found Caucasian suicide rates were higher in south and west; African-American rates were higher in the north. Homicide rates of Caucasians and African Americans showed similar patterns of associations with social variables, particularly those related to…

Analysis of 1980 state-level data found that white suicide rates were associated with variables indicating social instability, while American Indian suicide rates were negatively related to wealth and urbanization. Both white and Indian homicide rates were related to social instability; Indian rates were also negatively related to unemployment.…