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Evidence was found for the role of social integration in affecting suicide rates both in a time-series analysis and in a regional analysis for the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The social correlates of the homicide rates were, however, quite different from those of the suicide rates.
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Ausenda, G., Lester, D. & Yang, B. Social correlates of suicide and homicide in the Austro-Hungarian empire in the 19th century. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Nuerosci 240, 301–302 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02189544
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02189544