Book Review-Suicide by cop: Committing Suicide by Provoking Police to Shoot you, by M Lindsay and D Lester

The reviewer provides a brief overview of the epidemiology of suicide-by-cop in the United States before turning to a review of the present book, which he describes as “an excellent introduction to this kind of suicide behaviour & to the issues of interpreting or dealing with it.” He draws attention to particularly interesting chapters featuring unique perspectives on the topic of suicide-by-cop, & highlights the book’s practical as well as theoretical importance for both researchers of suicide & practitioners of its prevention.