"Self-execution" and state execution.
In the United States from 1977 to 1999, the suicide rate of death row inmates was not associated with their probability of execution (r = -.25).
Capital Punishment↗
Biomedical subjects
Christine Tartaro
Publications and source records attributed to Christine Tartaro.
An application of Durkheim's theory of suicide to prison suicide rates in the United States.
E. Durkheim (1897) suggested that the societal rate of suicide might be explained by societal factors, such as marriage, divorce, and birth rates. The current study examined male prison suicide rates and suicide rates for men in the total population in the United States and found that variables based on Durkheim's theory of suicide explained prison suicide rates better than suicide rates for total population. Possible reasons for these findings are discussed.
Birth Rate↗
Suicide on death row.
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).
Adult↗