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Suicide in prisons in England and Wales from 1988 to 1995
Author(s) -
Towl Graham J.,
Crighton David A.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
criminal behaviour and mental health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.63
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1471-2857
pISSN - 0957-9664
DOI - 10.1002/cbm.245
Subject(s) - prison , new england , unit (ring theory) , work (physics) , service (business) , criminology , history , psychology , political science , engineering , law , business , politics , marketing , mechanical engineering , mathematics education
This study is based on an examination of 377 official records (from the English Prison Service's Suicide Awareness Support Unit) of self‐inflicted deaths in prisons in England and Wales for the period from 5 February 1988 to 5 November 1995. The study builds on the work of earlier researchers in the area of suicides in prisons (Topp, 1979; Dooley, 1990) and provides a detailed analysis of all self‐inflicted deaths occurring in prisons in England and Wales, something never previously undertaken. In this paper we present some of the main results from our research. Copyright © 1998 Whurr Publishers Ltd.