@article{ref1,
title="Reporting Femicide-Suicide in the News: The Current Utilization of Suicide Reporting Guidelines and Recommendations for the Future",
journal="Journal of family violence",
year="2014",
author="Richards, T.N. and Gillespie, L.K. and Givens, E.M.",
volume="29",
number="4",
pages="453-463",
abstract="Public health officials have developed and disseminated recommendations for the responsible reporting of suicide in an effort to dispel myths about suicide-completers and minimize contagion effects. However, recommendations as to the reporting of homicide-suicide events have not been a priority in these initiatives. The current study assesses the degree to which newspaper coverage of the most commonly occurring type of homicide-suicide event, femicide-suicide, adhere to existing suicide reporting recommendations by examining newspaper coverage (n = 143) of a population of femicide-suicide cases (n = 83) from North Carolina for the years 2002-2009. The current study demonstrates the importance of developing and disseminating reporting guidelines to assist in dispelling myths about the victims and perpetrators of lethal intimate partner violence. © 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0885-7482",
doi="10.1007/s10896-014-9590-9",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10896-014-9590-9"
}