The Currents of Lethal Violence: An Integrated Model of Suicide and Homicide

Building on past work, the authors outline an integrated model for linking suicide and homicide and show how that research from this perspective can further our understanding of violence. Specifically, they show that research based on this model provides new insights into how structural and cultural factors combine to produce high homicide levels in the American South and cross-national difference in lethal violence rates. In conclusion, they evaluate the model's utility, address possible criticisms of this perspective, and suggest avenues for further investigations of lethal violence.

N. Prabha Unnithan is Associate Professor of Sociology at Colorado State University.

Lin Huff-Corzine is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Kansas State University.

Jay Corzine is Associate Professor of Sociology and Hugh P. Whitt is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.