title: Pockets of violence: a study of regional variation in suicide and homicide rates.
abstract: The states of America were classified on the basis of the homicide and suicide rates into violent, nonviolent, inwardly violent and outwardly violent. Social differences between these four groups of states were identified. The usefulness of this type of regional analysis was discussed.
authors.affiliation: Richard Stockton State College.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lester
mesh_terms: D006708:Homicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D012924:Social Conditions; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013405:Suicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014754:Violence