Social and racial correlates of Russian roulette

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 436-441

  Stack, Steven ^a,b   Wasserman, Ira ^c  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for Suicide Research   (United States)

^c EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FIREARM; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEAD INJURY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; VICTIM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; CONTROL GROUPS; CRIME VICTIMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FIREARMS; FLORIDA; HEAD INJURIES, PENETRATING; HUMANS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MICHIGAN; NEW YORK CITY; RISK-TAKING; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 55749098989     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2008.38.4.436     Document Type: Article

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