Abstract
The geography of self-injury: Spatial patterns in attempted and completed suicide.
Hempstead, K.
This study uses hospital discharge data, death certificates and medical examiner data for New Jersey for 1999Ð2001 to investigate whether fatal and non-fatal self-injury exhibit similar geographic patterns. Findings show that the demographic characteristics of individuals committing fatal and non-fatal self-injury are quite different. Furthermore, attempted and completed suicides have a somewhat different geographical pattern.