TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Contribution of imitative suicide to the suicide rate in prisons
JO  - Suicide and life-threatening behavior
A1  - McKenzie, N.
A1  - Keane, Michael
SP  - 538
EP  - 542
VL  - 37
IS  - 5
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0363-0234
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/suli.2007.37.5.538
ID  - ref1
ER  -