I ^~hCJU^ kSo^ ii-v 2^i-^^h ^5-^ .M^V-^^- SUICIDE Suicide A STUDY IN SOCIOLOGY By Emile Durkheim TRANSLATED BY JOHN A. SPAULDING AND GEORGE SIMPSON EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GEORGE SIMPSON The Free Press, Glencoe, Illinois Copyright i^^i by The Free Press, A corporation Printed in the United States of America by American Book-Knickerbocker Press, New York Designed by Sidney Solomon First Printing January i^^i To Those Who, with Durkheim, Understand the Life of Reason As Itself a Moral Arthur Ginsin in Commitment, and Especially D. Gayer in Economics; Sol burg in Psychiatry; Robert Sociology; and Arthur E. to W. S. Lynd Murphy Philosophy CONTENTS PAGE Editor's Preface Editor's Introduction 9 13 35 Preface Introduction 41 Book One: Extra-Social Factors 1 Suicide and Psychopathic States 2 3 Suicide and Suicide Normal Psychological States —Race, Heredity 57 82 and Cosmic Factors 104 123 4 Imitation Book Two: Social Causes and Social Types 1 How to Determine Social Causes and Social Types 145 152 171 2 3 Egoistic Suicide Egoistic Suicide (^continued) Altruistic Suicide 4 5 217 241 the Different Types of Suicide Anomic Suicide 6 Individual Forms of 277 Book Three: General Nature of Suicide as a Social ...