TABLE 1—

Annual Percentage Change in Incidence of US Deaths Due to Legal Intervention, 1979–1997

	1979–1988		1988–1997
	Avg Death Rate	Avg % Change	Avg Death Rate	Avg % Change
All of US	0.14	–4.5*	0.13	+0.7
All females	<0.01	. . .a	<0.01	. . .a
All males	0.27	–4.7*	0.27	+0.5
All White males	0.08	–2.8*	0.09	+1.3
All Black males	0.38	–7.6*	0.29	–1.9
White males aged 20–35	0.35	–4.8*	0.36	+2.3
Black males aged 20–35	1.74	–13.9*	1.36	–1.3

Note. Death rates are per 100 000 individuals.

^aNumber is too small for statistical stability.

*P ≤ .02 for trend.