Suicide and Crime in the Social Structure of an Urban Setting: Fort Worth, 1930-1950

Suicide and Religion: A Comparative Analysis

“…The first is an association between industrialization and normative confusion. As Morselli (1882), Porterfield (1952), and Quinney (1965) contend, industrialization breaks up rural village communities based on traditional, unquestioned culture and replaces them with an urban reality, or gesellschaft, based on a changing and ever-questioned culture. Recent American cultural change and questioning of traditional culture is illustrated by such social movements as the anti-war, feminist, and gay liberation movements.…”

Completed suicide and criminality: lack of a direct relationship

“…A significant correlation between the high suicide rate and the high rate of delinquency has been reported in some ecological studies (Mc-Culloch et al 1967;Bagley et al 1973;Bojanovsky, 1978) but has not been confirmed in others (Porterfield, 1952;Lester, 1970).…”

The Spatial Analysis of Crime and Delinquency

“…It might also be rewarding if some multivariate analysis could embrace not only crime and delinquency but also mental illness, suicide, and other social defects, since aside from the combination of murder and suicide their distributions tend to coincide (Lind, 1930;Shaw and McKay, 1942;Schroeder, 1942;Schmitt, 1956;Castle and Gittus, 1957;Robins and O'Neal, 1958;Timms, 1965). Murder and suicide however rarely cohabit (Elmer, 1933;Porterfield, 1951Porterfield, , 1952Henry and Short, 1954).…”