SUICIDES IN POLAND — ETIOLOGY AND SCALE OF THE PHENOMENON IN 2008–2018

• Authors: KAWECKI, ANDRZEJ

Abstracts

EN

For many years, suicides have been the most tragic manifestation of social and personality disintegration in Poland and abroad. Suicide is a subject of interest for psychologists, psychiatrists, pedagogues, sociologists, philosophers, theologians, doctors, and criminologists. The article presents a statistical analysis of suicide attempts based on data from the National Police Headquarters conducted in this fi eld in 2008-2018. In this context, it presents the causes and effects of suicidal behaviour. The analysis of social groups of high suicidal risk, reasons, methods and location of suicide attempts, marital status, and education of suicides are also presented.

Keywords

EN

suicide attempt; suicidology; suicidal behaviour; social aspects of suicide; dynamics of suicide; committed suicide; attempted suicide

• Publisher: Akademia Policji w Szczytnie
• Journal: Przegląd Policyjny
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 136(4)
• Pages: 134-157

Dates

published

2020-04-20

Contributors

author

KAWECKI, ANDRZEJ

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0014.1137