Citation

Larney S, Farrell M. Lancet Psychiatry 2017; 4(12): 894-895.

Affiliation

National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S2215-0366(17)30435-2

PMID

29179923

Abstract

Seena Fazel and colleagues1 present data from multiple countries confirming that suicide continues to occur at higher rates in prisoner populations compared with non-incarcerated people in the surrounding community. Prevention of suicide is a key task for correctional institutions but identifying individuals most at risk of suicide in prison is not simple, with the limitations of risk assessment for accurately identifying individuals most at risk of suicide having been acknowledged.2, 3 This problem has led researchers to investigate the role of institutional, systemic, and environmental factors that might influence prisoner suicide, in the hope of identifying modifiable targets for intervention...

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