'Suicide by cop' phenomenon occurring in over a third of North American shootings involving police
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 15:35
in Psychology & Sociology
Pasadena, CA—February 18, 2009—"Suicide by Cop" (SBC) is a suicide method in which a person engages in actual or apparent danger to others in an attempt to get oneself killed or injured by law enforcement. A new study in the Journal of Forensic Sciences examined the prevalence of this phenomenon among a large sample of officer-involved shootings.