@article{ref1,
title="Assessing legal strains and risk of suicide using archived court data",
journal="Suicide and life-threatening behavior",
year="2012",
author="Cook, Thomas Bradley",
volume="42",
number="5",
pages="495-506",
abstract="Relatively little is known about legal entanglements and suicide risk. This matched case-control study estimated the risk of suicide associated with legal strains using online court archives, a novel source of exposure data. Court records linked to suicide deaths (N = 315), controls (N = 630), and unintentional injury and poisoning deaths (N = 630) for an urban county from 2000 to 2005 revealed that nearly a third of suicide victims had recent court involvement, twice the proportion among controls. Misdemeanors, car accidents, and foreclosures were each associated with a threefold risk of suicide. Implications for suicide prevention and research are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0363-0234",
doi="10.1111/j.1943-278X.2012.00107.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1943-278X.2012.00107.x"
}