In the aftermath of a murder, homicide detectives and the loved ones of slain victims have no
choice but to interact with one another over a lengthy period of time. These relationships are …

Internationally, prisoner mortality rates are up to 50% above those in the community.
Although prisoner deaths are frequent and have significant implications across a broad …

Wrongful convictions have become a growing area of concern among legal scholars,
reflecting the success of the global innocence movement that aims to exonerate factually …

Despite persistent efforts to advance infant death investigation, most sudden unexpected
infant deaths (SUIDs) remain unexplained. Law enforcement officials contribute to SUID …

Introduction Suicide is a major public health issue, however, little is known about the
characteristics/circumstances of suicide events. Data from law enforcement (LE) call reports …

Taking Australia as its example, this chapter argues that Southern death investigation
exhibits a unique constellation of features developed in response to law on the frontier, and …

Nonetheless, this criminological work has delivered a concentrated and critical body of
contributions to inquest study, typified by the signal work of Phil Scraton (eg Scraton and …

First responders and care professionals are often required to convey the deeply distressing
news to relatives of the sudden death of a loved one. Witnessing the extreme anguish and …

The emotional impact of homicide investigation is a very under-researched area. Yet,
homicide investigators deal with death every day and are exposed to traumatic scenes and …

Young women are the most suicidal population in Australia yet suicide research, policy, and
practice construct suicide as a male problem. While the suicide rate among young women is …