Suicide in Young Age Group

Death at a Young Age: Custodial Suicide and Qualified Immunity

I have written a good deal about Coleman v. Wilson, 912 F.Supp 1282 (E.D. Cal. 1995)(the original decision) in my Landmark Cases Appendix in Fred Cohen, The Mentally Disordered Inmate and the Law, App. B-104 (1998). If one reads enough correctional law decisions from California you would expect to be immune from shock, particularly after Plata v. Schwarzenegger, No. C01-1351 (February 14, 2006)...

PREDISPOSING AND PRECIPITATING RISK FACTORS FOR SUICIDE IDEATIONS AND SUICIDE ATTEMPTS IN YOUNG AND ADOLESCENT GIRLS

 ABSTRACT Background: To investigate the predisposing and precipitating risk factors for suicide ideations and suicide attempts in young and adolescent females, we tried to introduce a holistic model of suicidal behavior in young and adolescent girls. Methods: This study is based on the survey studies and was cross-sectional. Considering high rates of suicide attempts in provinces of Iran, thre...

Suicide in young men.

Suicide is second to only accidental death as the leading cause of mortality in young men across the world. Although suicide rates for young men have fallen in some high-income and middle-income countries since the 1990s, wider mortality measures indicate that rates remain high in specific regions, ethnic groups, and socioeconomic groups within those nations where rates have fallen, and that yo...

[Suicide and suicide attempts in old age].

Maternal age at child birth, birth order, and suicide at a young age: a sibling comparison.

Previous studies have reported strong associations between birth order, maternal age, and suicide, but these results might have been confounded by socioeconomic and other factors. To control for such factors, we compared suicide risk between siblings and studied how maternal age at child birth and birth order influenced risk in a cohort study of 1,690,306 Norwegians born in 1967-1996 who were f...