1st Edition

Suicide by Cop Committing Suicide by Provoking Police to Shoot You

128 Pages

by Routledge

128 Pages

by Routledge

128 Pages

by Routledge

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This book examines what we know about the phenomenon of suicide by cop and places this behavior in a broader context. For example, some murder victims (perhaps as many as a quarter) provoke the murderer, to some extent, into killing them-so-called victim-precipitated homicide. In some cases, it has been suspected that murderers kill and act thereafter in such a way as to provoke the state into... Read more

SECTION I
The Problem of Suicide-By-Cop
CHAPTER 1
Introduction
CHAPTER 2
Suicide-by-Cop: What We Know

SECTION 2
Suicide, Murder, and Cops
CHAPTER 3
Suicide during Confrontations with Police
CHAPTER 4
Justifiable Homicide by Police

SECTION 3
Looking at the Larger Context
CHAPTER 5
Similar Behavior in Other Cultures
CHAPTER 6
Running Amok in America
CHAPTER 7
Victim-Precipitated Murder
CHAPTER 8
Suicide at the Hands of the State
CHAPTER 9
Murder Followed by Suicide

SECTION 4
Suicide-by-Cop: A Look at the Issues
CHAPTER 10
Suicide-by-Cop and African Americans
CHAPTER 11
Legal Issues in Suicide-by-Cop
CHAPTER 12
Hostage Negotiations
CHAPTER 13
Helping the Police Officer
CHAPTER 14
How to Lessen the Incidence of Suicide-by-Cop
References

Index