Katrina Baum | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

From April 25-26, 2023 the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop to identify challenges in and opportunities for measuring suicide in the law enforcement occupation. Experts in the field met to identify ways to improve the measurement of suicide by current and former police and corrections officers, dispatchers, and other sworn and civilian personnel, in public and private organizations. This proceedings provides a synthesis of key themes identified during the workshop.

Table of Contents


Front Matter
1 Introduction
2 Primary Sources for Measuring Suicide - Federal Data Sets
3 Additional Data Sources for Measuring Suicide
4 Complexities of Death Classification and Sources of Bias
5 Methods for Measuring Suicide
6 Connecting Measurement to the Human Aspect of Suicide
7 Possible Future Directions
References
Appendix A: Public Meeting Agenda
Appendix B: Biosketches
Appendix C: Sample of Relevant Data Collections
Committee on National Statistics