TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1999//
TI  - The relationship between firearms and suicide: A review of the literature
JO  - Aggression and violent behavior
A1  - Miller, Margaret
A1  - Hemenway, David A.
SP  - 59
EP  - 75
VL  - 4
IS  - 1
N2  - Suicide rates are affected by many factors--psychiatric, biological, familial and situational. This paper focuses on one potential risk factor for completed suicide in the United States--the availability of firearms. Whether the availability of firearms might increase the rate of attempted suicide is not examined. This article is not an exhaustive review of every existing firearm-related suicide study. Rather, it provides a detailed review of the most commonly cited, representative, and thorough empirical studies in the published peer-reviewed literature relating firearms and suicide, focusing largely on the United States. The empirical studies reviewed are grouped according to whether the unit of analysis is the individual (e.g., case-control studies) or a population (e.g., ecological studies) and further divided depending on whether the analysis uses cross-sectional or time-series (longitudinal) data. We begin with a very brief overview of the suicide problem in the United States.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 1359-1789
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -