Homicide-suicides in Fiji: Offense patterns, situational factors, and sociocultural contexts

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-73

  Adinkrah, Mensah ^a  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CRIME; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FIJI; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OFFENDER; SEXUALITY; SUICIDE; VICTIM;

ADULT; CULTURE; FEMALE; FIJI; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUICIDE;

EID: 0037363920     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.33.1.65.22791     Document Type: Article

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