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Suicide Reporting: Information or Entertainment?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Daphne Shepherd  and
B. M. Barraclough
Daphne Shepherd
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Social Administration, University of Southampton, Southampton SO9 5NH
B. M. Barraclough
Affiliation:
MRC Clinical Psychiatry Unit, Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 4PQ
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Summary

The reporting of suicide inquests by a provincial evening paper has been examined. Inquests on violent and youthful suicides were given more reports, larger reports and more eye-catching headlines.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 132 , Issue 3 , March 1978 , pp. 283 - 287
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1978 

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