RT Article
T1 Psychological Characteristics and Predictors of Suicide Probability in High-Risk Prisoners
JF Criminal justice and behavior
VO 44
IS 3
SP 321
OP 335
A1 Gooding, Patricia A.
A2 Tarrier, Nicholas
A2 Awenat, Yvonne
A2 Dunn, Graham 1949-
A2 Pratt, Daniel 1973-
A2 Shaw, Jennifer
A2 Ulph, Fiona
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1700564943
AB Suicidal thoughts and behaviors are highly prevalent in prisoners. Nevertheless, there have been scant attempts to understand suicidality in prisoners from a psychological perspective. The goals of this study were to characterize a prison sample at high risk of suicide in terms of hopelessness, defeat, and entrapment, and to determine which of these variables predicted suicidality. A cross-sectional questionnaire design was used. Measures of hopelessness, defeat, entrapment, and suicide probability were administered to male prison inmates in the United Kingdom. Defeat and hopelessness, especially the affective component of hopelessness, predicted the probability of suicide in this sample, but entrapment was not a significant predictor. Suicide risk assessment procedures in prisons tend to be sparse. Such procedures would benefit from using measures of hopelessness and defeat. Future work should aim to understand how the impact of these psychological constructs on suicidality in prisoners can be attenuated.
K1 Suicide
K1 Prisoners
K1 Defeat
K1 Entrapment
DO 10.1177/0093854816650478