Media and Suicide: International Perspectives on Research, Theory, and Policy

Somewhere in the world, in the next forty seconds, a person is going to commit suicide. Globally, suicides account for 50 percent of all violent deaths among men and 71 percent for women. Despite suicide prevention programs, therapy, and pharmacological treatments, the suicide rate is either increasing or remaining high around the world.

Media and Suicide holds traditional and emergent media accountable for influencing an individual’s decision to commit suicide. Global experts present resear...