This review represents the eighth in an annual special feature in Police Practice and
Research: An International Journal. With a focus on the substantive categories, publication …

This article examines how deaths related to mental health in England and Wales are
investigated and the extent to which lessons are learned in their aftermath. It uses two …

This paper reports on a large-scale documentary analysis of all publicly available coroners'
reports on deaths in custody released between 1991 and 2016. The research was …

Australian coroners have several functions in death in custody investigations–they fulfil
judicial, pastoral, preventative and data collection roles. We interviewed six coroners from …

This paper analyses factors involved in Indigenous deaths associated with police contact in
Australia since the Royal Commission of Inquiry, with a view to identifying possible points of …

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 …

Women's deaths in custody remain under‐researched around the world. This article reports
on a large‐scale study on deaths in custody conducted in Australia that involved an analysis …

Death Investigation, coroners’ inquests and human rights Page 229 14 Death investigation,
coroners’ inquests and human rights Rebecca Scott Bray Introduction For victims, the …

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 …

This paper provides an in-depth study of one police officer death on duty in Australia. The
paper draws primarily on the detailed Coroner's inquest and final report into the death of …