White youth and American Indian youth were at greater risk of suicide than murder
From 1981 to 1998, white and American Indian youth ages 7–17 were approximately 1.5 times more likely to commit suicide than to be murdered. For black youth and Asian youth, the risk of being murdered was far greater than the risk of committing suicide. Black youth were almost 7 times more likely, and Asian youth 1.5 times more likely, to be murdered than to commit suicide between 1981 and 1998.
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