In the past five years, several scientific articles have claimed that the increase some countries have registered in suicide rates since 2008 is somehow related to the economic crisis. Other research has suggested that the impact of specific economic problems on the probability of suicidal behavior is often mediated by other individual-level factors, mainly psychological and physical, whose negative influence is exacerbated by reductions in the availability of health and social care during an economic crisis. On the basis of almost 1,000 cases of suicide collected by the Institute of Forensic Medicine in the province of Milan, this article aims at testing whether suicidal probability during an economic crisis is influenced by the interaction between an individual’s employment status and the presence of psychological or physical disease. Using a binary logistic regression model, this article demonstrates that the likelihood of suicide during an economic crisis is three times higher for persons affected by a severe disease, either physical or psychological, than for people who are not affected (OR = 3.156; 95% CI = 1.066–9.339; p = 0.38). Neither employment status nor the interaction between employment status and health status contributed to the difference between the suicide rate before and during the economic crisis.

Not all crimes are reported to the police. The same is true for employee offences experienced by firms. Indeed, companies that are victims of white-or blue-collar crime do not systematically report the incidents to the police or to other official authorities. Victim studies and victimization surveys are recent attempts to provide an insight into the amount of unreported crime. Drawing on the most recent business crime survey conducted in Switzerland, this article focuses on victim reporting of acts committed by employees such as fraud, theft, and unfair competition and examines for the first time for this country the variables associated with firms' reporting behaviours. The analysis reveals that several factors might influence the reporting behaviour of firms. The decision to report a crime or not varies and depends on the type of business, the type of crime, its severity or the amount of damage resulting from the crime, the fear of reputational damage, or trust in the police.

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