Understanding Suicide: A Sociological Autopsy

by Michael Shiner, Ben Fincham, Jonathan Scourfield, et al.

Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and breaks new ground through a qualitatively-driven, mixed method 'sociological autopsy' of one hundred suicides that explores what can be known about suicidal lives.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230580920
• ISBN13: 9780230580923
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"