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Suicide and the law : cases, theories and strategies for prevention / by James Selkin.

Title
Suicide and the law : cases, theories and strategies for prevention / by James Selkin.
Author
Selkin, James
Publication
Buffalo, NY : W.S. Hein, 2005.

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Description
ix, 135 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Suicide > psychology
  • Suicide Prevention
  • Forensic Psychiatry > methods
  • Suicide > legislation & jurisprudence
  • Suicide
  • Psychological autopsy
  • Autopsy > Law and legislation
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The suicidologist in the courtroom -- Issues in the psychological autopsy of a public figure -- Psychological autopsy of D. Davis -- An inconclusive psychological autopsy -- Psychological autopsy of a skid row habitue? -- Scientific psychohistory : clinical intuition -- The Herman case -- A deposition in a case with multiple defendants -- A case against a community mental health center -- Case against a psychologist -- A typical jail suicide -- Strengths and limitations of a psychological autopsy -- Rescue fantasies in homicide-suicide -- www.ConsideringSuicide.com -- After suicide: visiting nurses' program -- Suicide prevention in jail -- Suicide in the military : adolescent suicide -- Preventing suicide now.
ISBN
0837737087 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2005046210
OCLC
  • 60188177
  • SCSB-9920136
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library