SOCL 3501 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Homicide, Terminal Illness, Married People
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Myths: person intentionally taking one"s life, have to be able to determine their intent to categorize it as a suicide or not. In us, we underestimate how many suicides are really happening in us: three ways to classify a death: Accident: these three classifications can cause measurement errors, difficult to determine between suicide and accident because sometimes intent is not known (letters, etc could be left) 1: thio does differentiate between people who have threatened suicide, attempted suicide, or committed. Don"t have the same non-family networks that others may have: drug abusers, these individuals could be isolated or rely on others or things, attempted suicide is not always a failed attempt to committing suicide. Sometimes individuals only want to be considered as someone who attempted suicide: methods: Cutting (wrists, etc ); people that cut wrists horizontally may not really want to commit suicide but people that cut vertically may be more serious: people who commit, who:
