ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Published Online: 1 September 2002
Page Count: 4

Suicide on Death Row
Tartaro, C
Psychology Program, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, NJ

Lester, D
Psychology Program, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, NJ

(Received 1 May 2002; accepted 15 April 2002)

Abstract

The suicide rate on death row for the period 1976 through 1999 was found to be high (113 per 100,000 per year), some five times higher than the suicide rate for the male population of the United States. The death row suicide rate was predicted by features of the death row population (negatively with the population on death row) and by social indicators of the society as a whole (negatively with birth and divorce rates and positively with marriage rates).

Keywords:
forensic science, suicide, death row

Paper ID: JFS15524J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS15524J
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