Police shooting as a method of self-harming: A review of the evidence for 'suicide by cop' in England and Wales between 1998 and 2001

International Journal of the Sociology of Law

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 349-361

  Best, David ^a   Quigley, Anna ^b   Bailey, Alan ^c  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS CFSMS   (United Kingdom)

^c Alan Bailey Consultancy   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 12944300271     PISSN: 01946595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsl.2004.09.002     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. D. Aldridge Suicidal behaviour: A continuing cause for concern British Journal of General Practice 42 1992 482-485
2. J. Atkinson Discovering Suicide 1978 Macmillan London
3. R.V. Clarke D. Lester Suicide: Closing the Exits 1989 Springer New York
4. E. Durkheim The Rules of Sociological Method 1895/1966 Free Press New York
5. E. Durkheim Suicide 1897/1951 Routledge London
6. Homant, R. J., Kennedy, D. B., 2000a. Effectiveness of Less than Lethal Force in Suicide-by Cop Incidents. Police Quarterly Vol. 3 No. 2, June 2000, 153-171.
7. R.J. Homant D.B. Kennedy Suicide by police: A proposed typology of law enforcement officer assisted suicide policing: An international Journal of Police Strategies and Management 23 2000 339-355
8. R.J. Homant D.B. Kennedy R.T. Hupp Real and perceived danger in police officer assisted suicide Journal of Criminal Justice 28 1999 43-52
9. H.R. Hutson D. Anglin J. Yarbrough K. Hardaway M. Russell J. Strote M. Canter B. Blum Suicide by cop Annals of Emergency Medicine 32 1998 665-669
10. Kennedy, D.B., Homant, R.J., Hupp, R.T., 1998. Suicide by cop. FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin August, pp. 21-27.
11. Lord, V.B., 1998. One Form of Victim Precipitated Homicide: The Use of Law Enforcement Officers to Commit Suicide. Paper presented at Annual Meeting of Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
12. R. Merton Social Theory and Social Structure 1957 Free Press New York
13. Office for National Statistics, 2000. Estimated Numbers of Deaths Assigned to Suicide, 1997-2000.
14. R.B. Parent S. Verdun-Jones Aspects of Use of Deadly Force in British Columbia: The Phenomenon of Victim Precipitated Homicide 1998 Master's thesis, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
15. Police Complaints Authority (PCA), 2002. Annual Report of Police Complaints Authority, 2001/2002. Stationary Office, London.
16. E. Shneidman Suicidology: Contemporary Developments 1976 Grune and Stratton New York
17. S. Taylor Suicide 1988 Longman Harlow
18. The World Health Report, 2001. Mental Health: New understanding, New Hope, World Health Organisation.
19. Wilson, E.F., Davis, J.H., Bloom, J.D., Batten, P.J., Kamara, S.G., 1998. Homicide or suicide? The killing of suicidal persons by law enforcement officers. Journal of Forensic Sciences Vol. 43, pp. 46-52.