The validity of open-source data when assessing jail suicides

The validity of open-source data when assessing jail suicides

Abstract Background The Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Deaths in Custody Reporting Program is the primary source for jail suicide research, though the data is restricted from general dissemination. This study is the first to examine whether jail suicide data obtained from publicly available sources c...

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Main Authors: Amanda L. Thomas, Jacqueline Scott, Jeff Mellow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-05-01
Series:Health & Justice
Subjects:
Jail suicide
Open-source data
Official data
DCRP
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40352-018-0069-2

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