Suicide in Prisons : Prisoners' Lives Matter.

Cover -- Copyright and publication details -- Table of Contents -- Copyright and publications details -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- The author of the Foreword -- Reviews -- Foreword -- Setting the Scene -- Introduction -- Human rights -- Fresh perspectives -- Theoretical Perspectives on Suicide -- Introduction -- Rationalist approaches to suicide -- Medical models of suicide -- Social Models of Suicide -- Psychological theories of suicide -- A theoretical model of suicide in prisons -- Causation -- Methodological problems in prison suicide -- Similarities between suicide and suicide attempts -- Protective factors -- The two-stage model of suicide -- Applying the theory -- Community Research into Suicide -- Introduction -- Defining suicide in the community -- Epidemiological studies -- Access and methods -- Comparative Research -- Conclusions Chapter 3 -- What We Know About Prisoners -- Introduction -- Family, Attitudes and Self-Control -- Conclusions Chapter 4 -- The Management of Suicide in Prisons -- Introduction -- Prisons Service Instruction (PSI) 64/2011 -- Assessment, Care in Custody, Teamwork (ACCT) -- Political and Expert Commentaries on Prisoner Suicide -- Introduction -- The Ministerial Council on Deaths in Custody -- The Harris Review -- Government Response to the Harris Review -- Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) -- HM Inspector of Prisons -- Howard League for Penal Reform (HL) -- Reflections upon the ideas to reduce suicide of the IAP, PPO, HMCIP and Howard League -- Suicide in Prisons: Early Literature -- Introduction -- Early empirical studies -- Australian studies -- Prison suicide: studies of self-injury -- Studies of completed suicides -- Conclusions Chapter 7 -- Suicide in Prisons: Modern literature -- Introduction -- Gender -- Ethnicity -- Legal status -- Mental Health -- Offence type -- Time in custody.

Care and support -- Key findings -- Post-millennial studies -- Conclusions Chapter 8 -- Suicide in Prisons an Empirical Study of Prisoner Suicides from 1978 to 2014 -- Introduction -- The data -- Theoretical Implications -- Future Directions -- References -- Index -- Back cover.

The definitive guide from two leading authors central to developments in the field. An invaluable book which covers everything from theoretical and community research to precisely what is known about prisoners and the risk of their completing suicide.

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