Book Review-Student Suicide – A Study in Social Integration by P A Cresswell & G A Smith

Although the reviewer found that Cresswell & Smith do provide supporting evidence for their hypothesis that high suicide rates among male Cambridge students are related to male/female student ratios, he also states that they may be too ready to assume that the correlation is a causal one. Sainsbury feels that if other indices of social integration & isolation were included in the study & found to be associated with suicide, then the relative effects of the sex ratio could be tested. (1 ref.)