Resource Tag: SOCIOLOGICAL AUTOPSY
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Life under pressure: The social roots of youth suicide and what to do about them
A rare study that transforms our understanding of why youth die by suicide, why youth suicide clusters happen, and how to stop them Youth suicide clusters have deeply unsettled communities in recent years. While clusters have been widely documented in the media, too little is known about why youth die by suicide, why youth suicide […]
Sociodemographic and psychosocial risk factors of railway suicide a mixed-methods study combining data of all suicide decedents in the Netherlands with data from a psychosocial autopsy study
Background: Railway suicide has profound implications for the victims and their family, and affects train drivers, railway personnel, emergency services and witnesses. To inform a multilevel prevention strategy, more knowledge is required about psychosocial and precipitating risk factors of railway suicide. Methods: Data from Statistics Netherlands of all suicides between 2017 and 2021 (n = 9.241) of […]
Understanding suicide: a sociological autopsy.
Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and breaks new ground through a qualitatively-driven, mixed method ‘sociological autopsy’ of one hundred suicides that explores what can be known about suicidal lives.