Citation

La Harpe R, Mahnert J. Arch. Kriminol. 1998; 202(5-6): 152-156.

Vernacular Title

Gibt es raumliche Einflussfaktoren bei der Wahl des Ertrinkungstodes als

Affiliation

Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Universität Genf.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, Verlag Schmidt-Romhild)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10023490

Abstract

123 out of 850 suicides that occurred in the Canton of Geneva between 1980 and 1989 were suicides by submersion. 75 women and 48 men committed this kind of suicide. 89 victims (57 women and 32 men) were older than 40 years. In all cases the spatial distance between the residence of the suicides and the nearest river or lake was determined; a correlation with the tendency to commit suicide by drowning was not evident. More than geographical factors, the psychological influences have to be considered.

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