Citation

Lersch KM. Soc. Sci. Med. 2020; 249: e112860.

Affiliation

School of Information, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, CIS 1020 Tampa, FL, 33620, USA. Electronic address: klersch@usf.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112860

PMID

32106000

Abstract

The purpose of this research is twofold: first, the spatial distribution of 911 emergency calls for service to the police for suicides in progress and threats of suicide in the City of Detroit, Michigan will be explored to determine whether these events exhibit different patterns of spatial clustering. Second, this research will explore the utility of Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM) to assist in our understanding of the locations of calls for service to the police related to suicide threats and suicides in progress. The results suggest that these events are different social phenomenon, both with respect to the spatial clustering of these events as well as qualitative differences in the environmental factors that may contribute to their occurrence.

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Language: en

Keywords

Risk terrain modeling; Self harm; Spatial; Suicide; Suicide attempts