Sattar Et Al: Suicide (imprisonment)

Question 1

Sample?

Answer 1

From 1996+1997:
•offenders serving community sentences
•offenders in prison in England+Wales
•general population (control)

Question 2

Method?

Answer 2

Statistical analysis of death records

Question 3

Results? (1997)

Answer 3

Per 100,00
Suicide:
C= 109.6
P= 87.3 
GP= 13.4

Overall mortality:
C= 464.0
P= 191.7
GP= 107.5

Question 4

Conclusions?

Answer 4

• violent death (suicide, accidental death, homocide or other) higher among community offenders than prisoners
• prison the safest place for prisoners

Question 5

Strengths?

Answer 5

• large sample
• concurrent validity as 1996+1997
• secondary data= look at patterns
• useful
• high population validity

Question 6

Weaknesses?

Answer 6

• ethnocentric

* secondary data= researcher bias, possible invalid original study

Question 7

Background?

Answer 7

Dooley= investigated unnatural deaths in England+Wales prisons, concluded that prisons are detrimental to prisoners mental health e.g overcrowding