Social-Psychological Underpinnings of the Integrated Model (IN: The Currents of Lethal Violence: an Integrated Model of Suicide & Homicide, ed. by Unnithan et al)

This chapter focuses on recent developments in social psychology, which, though they do not directly address suicide & homicide, seem to resolve some associated issues concerning the relationship between the two. In particular, the author identifies a version of attribution theory that provides linkages between the individual level of analysis & the more macrolevel perspective (that homicide & suicide are expressions of the same underlying motivations & social forces) which guides the author’s own research.