This review assesses the present state of knowledge regarding victims of suicide, accidental death, and homicide and analyzes the formal characteristics of the empirical research models that have yielded this body of knowledge. It is shown that our knowledge of these victims and their circumstances is fragmented because few investigators have studied more than one mode of violent death and because few studies have examined data from both the individual and environmental levels of analysis. An analysis of the research models that have been used to study violent death reveals inherent limitations. Specifically, these empirical approaches are shown to have particular deficiencies in terms of their ability to reflect interactions between environmental and personal factors. In view of these problems, a research model better suited to interactionist analyses is developed, and its usefulness for further research is discussed.
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