Authors:Mark Lindsay, David Lester,
Publisher: Baywood Publishing Company
Keywords: suicide, death, value, meaning, shoot, police, cop, committing, provoking
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2004-04
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0895032902
ISBN-13: 9780895032904
The phenomenon of suicide by cop has increased in frequency in recent years, creating great concern in the law enforcement community. In suicide by cop, an individual behaves so as to provoke police officers into attempting to disarm him, sometimes killing him in the process. For example, an individual may hold a gun and advance toward police officers, refusing to stop or drop the weapon. It has proven difficult but important to distinguish these acts from those in which there is no justification for police officers’ killing an individual, and from those in which a person is killed during a
Author:
Publisher: Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry
Keywords: suicide, adolescent
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 1996-03-15
List price: $69.00
ISBN-10: 0873182081
ISBN-13: 9780873182089
Overview of adolescent suicidal behavior, for psychiatrists. Examines risk factors, identifying and evaluating the suicidal teen, therapy, historical and cross-cultural perspectives, public health policies, and medicolegal aspects.
Author: Maurice Halbwachs
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC
Keywords: suicide, causes
Number of Pages: 402
Published: 1978-04
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 071008708X
ISBN-13: 9780710087089
Author: Ami Pedahzur
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: terrorism, suicide
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-12-27
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0745633838
ISBN-13: 9780745633831
Suicide terrorism in its modern form made its first appearance in Lebanon in the early 1980s. Over the last quarter century, terrorist attacks perpetrated by suicide bombers have spread to many corners of the world and have become a major threat for both the governments and citizens of numerous countries. Can this devastating phenomenon be attributed to a specific religion or culture? What are the causes and motivations that lead ordinary people to embark upon suicide attacks? How are potential bombers trained for their mission? And is it possible for democratic governments to effectively cope
Author: S Westwood
Publisher: Chipmunkapublishing
Keywords: junkie, suicide
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 1847470815
ISBN-13: 9781847470812
By S Westwood ISBN: 9781847470812 Published: 2007 Pages: 281 Key Themes: suicidal thoughts, abuse, obsessive phobia, borderline personality disorder, depression Description As a survivor of at least six suicide attempts and a habit to self harm the author of this autobiographical novel fights with an obsessive phobia that his skin is hideously ugly and a personality disorder that leads to the edge of despair. He is diagnosed as having Borderline Personality Disorder and severe depression but it is not for a further ten years that his silence regarding his appearance is broken a
Author: sam paul
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: suicide, committed
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 2004-08-09
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0595326951
ISBN-13: 9780595326952
A stimulating read, a real page turner. Perfect for those nights when your girlfriend just left you for a sushi chef and stomped a hole in your heart with a spiked high heel shoe.
Author: Darcey Steinke
Publisher: Grove Pre
Keywords: blonde, suicide
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2000-03-01
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0802136648
ISBN-13: 9780802136640
Vanity Fair called this intensely erotic story of a young woman’s sexual and psychological odyssey "a provocative tour through the dark side." Jesse, a beautiful twenty-nine-year-old, is adrift in San Francisco’s demimonde of sexually ambiguous, bourbon-drinking, drug-taking outsiders. While desperately trying to sustain a connection with her bisexual boyfriend in a world of confused and forbidden desire, she becomes the caretaker of and confidante to Madame Pig, a besotted, grotesque recluse. Jesse also falls into a dangerous relationship with Madison, Pig’s daughter or love
