{"id":1146,"date":"2015-10-09T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T23:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2015-10-09T08:40:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T22:40:54","slug":"recently-published-suicide-statistics-and-the-coroner-a-comparative-study-of-death-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2015\/10\/09\/recently-published-suicide-statistics-and-the-coroner-a-comparative-study-of-death-investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"Recently Published &#8212; &#8220;Suicide, statistics and the coroner: A comparative study of death investigations&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/06\/8018b6deac06f99a5548700ce4877253-bpfull.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-799\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/06\/8018b6deac06f99a5548700ce4877253-bpfull.jpg\" alt=\"8018b6deac06f99a5548700ce4877253-bpfull\" width=\"168\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/01\/Belinda-Carpenter-Photo-2012-approved-cropped-info-hub.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-269\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/01\/Belinda-Carpenter-Photo-2012-approved-cropped-info-hub-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"Brisbane on December 04, 2012.\" width=\"186\" height=\"161\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tasa.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jos1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">QUT&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/staff.qut.edu.au\/staff\/taitg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Associate Professor Gordon Tait<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/staff.qut.edu.au\/staff\/carpente\/\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Belinda Carpenter <\/a>have recently had their article <em>&#8220;Suicide, statistics and the coroner: A comparative study of death investigations&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0published\u00a0in the latest edition of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jos.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Sociology<\/a><\/span>.<em>\u00a0<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Australia has a significantly higher suicide rate than England. Rather than accepting that this \u2018statistical fact\u2019 is a direct reflection of some positivist truth, this article begins with the premise that how suicide is counted depends upon what counts as suicide. This study involves semi-structured interviews with coroners both in Australia and England, as well as observations at inquests. Important differences between the two coronial systems include: first, quite different logics of operation; second, the burden of proof for reaching a finding of suicide is significantly higher in England; and, third, the presence of family members at English inquests results in far greater pressure being brought to bear upon coroners. These combined factors result in a reduced likelihood of English coroners reaching a finding of suicide. The conclusions are twofold. First, this research supports existing criticisms of comparative suicide statistics. Second, this research adds theoretical weight to criticisms of positivist analyses of social phenomena.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0To access the full article, <a href=\"http:\/\/jos.sagepub.com\/content\/51\/3\/553\" target=\"_blank\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 QUT&#8217;s Associate Professor Gordon Tait and Professor Belinda Carpenter have recently had their article &#8220;Suicide, statistics and the coroner: A comparative study of death investigations&#8221;\u00a0published\u00a0in the latest edition of the Journal of Sociology.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9754,9712],"tags":[11500,9746,11548,1634],"class_list":{"0":"post-1146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-journal-articles","8":"category-staff","9":"tag-belindacarpenter","10":"tag-deathinvestigation","11":"tag-gordontait","12":"tag-suicide"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1150,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}