Suïcide bij gedetineerden in België : een dossierstudie

Reducing the number of suicides in prison has been highlighted as an international priority. To date, however, studies examining prison suicides in Belgium are lacking. Therefore, adopting a retrospective record-based approach, we sought to investigate all suicides occurring in the whole Belgian prison estate during a 17-year period. The results underline the need for suicide prevention among prisoners in Belgium, and echo prior findings that restrictive preventive measures should be combined with psychosocial interventions in order to address the causes of prisoners being suicidal. Such strat... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Favril, Louis
Wittouck, Ciska
Audenaert, Kurt
Vander Laenen, Freya
Dokumenttyp: journalarticle
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Schlagwörter: Social Sciences / Medicine and Health Sciences / zelfdoding / suïcidepreventie / detentie / België / suicide / prevention / prison
Sprache: Niederländisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28896252
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Link(s) : https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8551240

Reducing the number of suicides in prison has been highlighted as an international priority. To date, however, studies examining prison suicides in Belgium are lacking. Therefore, adopting a retrospective record-based approach, we sought to investigate all suicides occurring in the whole Belgian prison estate during a 17-year period. The results underline the need for suicide prevention among prisoners in Belgium, and echo prior findings that restrictive preventive measures should be combined with psychosocial interventions in order to address the causes of prisoners being suicidal. Such strategies are ideally embedded within a comprehensive suicide prevention policy on a national level.