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Violence: homicide and suicide in New Jersey
1Department of Urban Studies and Community Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903.
New Jersey Medicine : the Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey
|December 1, 1994
Abstract:
Homicide and suicide data are examined for trends, patterns, and relationships to the public perception of violence. While homicide rates in poor urban-blighted areas in New Jersey are abominably high, there is no epidemic. We cannot afford to ignore the underlying factors that lead to violence.