TY - JOUR PY - 1983// TI - The epidemiology of abnormal homicide and murder followed by suicide JO - Psychological medicine A1 - Coid, Jeremy W. SP - 855 EP - 860 VL - 13 IS - 4 N2 - A comparison of the homicide rate of mentally abnormal offenders and murderers who subsequently commit suicide, from a range of different populations, shows a uniform consistency when compared with the overall rates. 'Laws' are proposed which govern the rates within these subgroups in comparison with the population as a whole and which determine fluctuations. Qualitatively different psychiatric and sociological factors are thought to account for these findings and require further elucidation.

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