Human Violence: A Comparison of Homicide, Aggrevated Assault, Suicide, and Attempted Suicide

4 types of human violence (suicide, attempted suicide, homicide, & aggravated assault) were compared to see if they arose in the same or different populations. Data was obtained from police records of all such cases occurring in Houston, Texas in periods ranging from 1-5 years at or near the time of the 1960 census. Comparisons were made in terms of type of place, census tract site of incident, census tract of home persons involved, hour, day of week, month, quarter of year, age,& ethnic group.