Suicide by cop: A case study analysis of how police practitioners view and understand victim -scripted suicide.
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Title
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Suicide by cop: A case study analysis of how police practitioners view and understand victim -scripted suicide.
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Identifier
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AAI3204985
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identifier
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3204985
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Creator
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Drylie, James J.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Maria (Maki) Haberfeld
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Date
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2006
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Sociology, Criminology and Penology
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Abstract
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This research will rely on an exploratory qualitative analysis of incidents (N=61) of police-involved shootings resulting in the death or serious bodily injury of an aggressor who has attacked the police with the apparent or stated intention of committing suicide. The use of a collective case study analysis will be supported by descriptive analysis of the demographic and situational characteristics of the suicidal actor in each of the cases that are determined to be suitable for analysis. The central question in this research focuses on whether a conceptualization of the phenomenon of suicide-by-cop can be developed from a practitioner's perspective with a subordinate question that focused on whether the type or kind of aggressive action used to provoke a police officer(s) into resorting to a deadly force response was scripted? The research first developed a tripartite definition of SbC delineating three distinct elements that must be present and can be clearly identified. A conceptual model of how police practitioners view and understand SbC was developed through a secondary analysis of individual case studies that were classified as SbC in the preliminary studies. A secondary analysis, and subsequent classification of a case(s) as SbC, required that the case file contain sufficient information regarding the actions of the suicidal actor that supported the classification through the definitional litmus developed for this research. In the final analysis of the data this research determined that a majority of the original cases (N=57) that were originally classified as SbC did not meet the definitional criteria developed for this study, and a primary factor in many of these misclassifications was based on the erroneous assumption that the actions of the suicidal actor was the sole or principal determinant. Overall, less than half (45%) of the cases examined in the final analysis were classified as SbC, and in each of the 26 cases that met the definitional criteria of SbC evidence of scripted behavior by the suicidal actor was identified.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
