title: Murder in Russia.
abstract: Ecological studies of regional suicide rates in Russian oblasts and krais and American states revealed that the clustering of social indicators and the social correlates of regional homicide rates were different in the two nations. However, indices of social distress (unemployment and illegitimate births) predicted homicide rates in both nations. The study pointed out the importance of replicating research in several nations in order to explore the generality of research findings and theories.
authors.affiliation: Center for the Study of Suicide, Blackwood, New Jersey 08012-5356, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lester
authors.forename: S V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Kondrichin
mesh_terms: D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D006708:Homicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012426:Russia; D012922:Social Change; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States