TEMPORAL VARIATION IN SUICIDE AND HOMICIDE

1 May 1979

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Epidemiology

Vol. 109 (5) , 517-520
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a112709

Abstract

In this study of all of the violent deaths in the US over two years, clear monthly and daily variations were found. Suicide peaked in the Spring and Fall; homicide in July and December. Suicide was more common on Mondays; homicide on Saturdays and Sundays. Homicide was more common on national holidays, while suicide tended to be less common. No lunar variation was found.

Keywords

HOMICLDE
SULCIDE

This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:

The Moon and Suicide
Psychological Reports, 1978