title: Police suicide research: conflict and consensus.
abstract: Despite new frontiers in suicide research over the past ten years, police suicide remains a difficult, persistent, and controversial problem. Controversy appears to focus on the accuracy and validity of police suicide rates, but other controversies exist as well. This is likely due to studies that are methodologically flawed, incomplete, or specific to limited geographic areas. The objective of this paper is to review issues related to both conflicts and consensus on police suicide.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health & Health Professions, Department of Social & Preventive Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA. violanti@buffalo.edu
authors.forename: John M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Violanti
mesh_terms: D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D032921:Consensus; D006801:Humans; D016495:Police / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012307:Risk Factors; D013405:Suicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology