@article{ref1,
title="Contribution of imitative suicide to the suicide rate in prisons",
journal="Suicide and life-threatening behavior",
year="2007",
author="McKenzie, N. and Keane, Michael",
volume="37",
number="5",
pages="538-542",
abstract="Suicide rates in prisons are high. Our aim was to investigate the contribution of imitative suicide to the prison suicide rate. We used Knox tests for space-time clustering in a case register of natural and self-inflicted deaths in prisons in England and Wales and model simulations to estimate the effect size. We found significant space-time clustering among 657 self-inflicted deaths in 90 prisons over 10 years but no space-time clustering among 430 deaths from natural causes in 87 prisons over this period. Model simulations with an imitation rate of 5.8% (CI 1%-11%) reproduced the observed space-time clustering.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0363-0234",
doi="10.1521/suli.2007.37.5.538",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/suli.2007.37.5.538"
}