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Suicide in London. An Ecological Study: Peter Sainsbury
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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It is almost a hundred years since Durkheim noted that the suicide rate for any country stayed surprisingly constant over time, and differed consistently from that found in other nations. This striking observation led him to argue that a community's suicide rate varied with the extent to which individuals identified with the social group that both controlled and defined their activities. If a group lost cohesion, it could no longer impose such order, and the individual's striving would lack purpose and meaning. So, for example, in times of economic crisis when social controls may be more relaxed, Durkheim predicted an increase in ‘anomic’ suicides.
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