Who Leaves Suicide Notes? An Exploration of Victim Characteristics and Suicide Method of Completed Suicides in Queensland

Victim, perpetrator, and offense characteristics in filicide and filicide-suicide

The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical review of most recent studies of parental and stepparental filicide. A detailed review of the literature revealed the importance of certain demographic, environmental, and psychosocial factors in the commission of child homicide. Our findings indicate that filicides perpetrated by genetic parents and stepparents differ considerably in terms of ...

An investigation of handwriting of suicide persons through suicide notes.

The question of whether or not the handwriting of persons who commit suicide and leave a note could be distinguished from controls was examined by employing 3 sets of judges: professional graphologists in Europe, American detectives, and secretaries. The graphologists exceeded chance by an unusually significant margin, while the detectives and secretaries did not. Apparently, the quality of the...

Suicide in medical doctors and nurses: an analysis of the Queensland Suicide Register.

This study aimed to estimate the risk for suicide among medical doctors and nurses compared with the education professions and the general population and to describe the characteristics of their suicides. Suicide cases and rates in the age group of 25 to 64 years were analyzed using the Queensland Suicide Register (QSR) during 1990 to 2007. The male medical doctors had lower suicide rates than ...

Credibility of suicide notes.

Spatial distribution of suicide in Queensland, Australia

BACKGROUND There has been a lack of investigation into the spatial distribution and clustering of suicide in Australia, where the population density is lower than many countries and varies dramatically among urban, rural and remote areas. This study aims to examine the spatial distribution of suicide at a Local Governmental Area (LGA) level and identify the LGAs with a high relative risk of sui...