Reviews
Professor Rockett's essential book reveals unacceptable deficiencies in the way America counts suicide and overdose fatalities, while presenting a groundbreaking framework for understanding self-injury. He highlights the serious and mounting consequences of conceptualizing suicide and overdose deaths as separate threats and establishes a robust basis for revitalizing preventative initiatives.
This is an authoritative book that should appeal to an educated general audience as well as to professionals immersed in suicide investigation, research and prevention. There are many valuable lessons for medical students and for graduate students from diverse fields, including epidemiology, public health, sociology, political science, criminology, criminal justice, and the forensic sciences.
Book Details
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Executive Summary
Introduction
1. Historical Questioning of Suicide Detection
2. Suicide as Second Fiddle in Medicolegal Death Investigations
3. American Suicide Data
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Executive Summary
Introduction
1. Historical Questioning of Suicide Detection
2. Suicide as Second Fiddle in Medicolegal Death Investigations
3. American Suicide Data Quality in International Perspective
4. Are Black Suicide Rates Really Lower than White Rates?
5. Surging Opioid Mortality Complicates Suicide Detection
6. The Importance of Supplemental Information
7. Shifting the Suicide Paradigm Towards Self-Injury Mortality
8. Applying, Translating, and Disseminating Self-Injury Mortality
9. How Are the Nation and My State Faring?
10. Into the Future
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Mortality-Related Glossary
References
Index