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Ecological variation of three types of suicide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Christopher Bagley  and
Solomon Jacobson
Christopher Bagley*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford and St Francis Hospital, Haywards Heath, Sussex
Solomon Jacobson
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford and St Francis Hospital, Haywards Heath, Sussex
*
1Address for correspondence: Dr Christopher Bagley, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford.
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Synopsis

The hypothesis has been tested that three types of suicide (‘old and handicapped’, ‘sociopathic’ and ‘depressed’) will vary in prevalence across ecologically defined urban areas. The hypothesis is supported with respect to ‘old and handicapped’ suicide, which predominates in middleclass areas with established residents of middle-class status; and with respect to ‘sociopathic’ suicide, which predominates in central areas with high rates of social pathology of all kinds, and poor housing conditions.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , August 1976 , pp. 423 - 427
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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