I am interested in obtaining a full set of data as above. This relates only to England (but if trends in suicide on probation have been reported in other countries I'd be grateful for the papers). The Ministry of Justice seems happy to give the figures for the period 2006-10 (see attached) but nothing more recent. If you know how to locate such information, for the period 2010-14, please let me know.
Hi Charlie, good to see you still beavering away. I can't help with this one actually I retired 12 years ago! One of our friends girls is doing a six month exchange at Sheffield - are you still living there? Let me know.
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Gordon
Hi Gordon yes affiliated with Royal Holloway but still living in Sheffield I will look for you on Linked-in regards charlie
Hi Charlie,
I am not sure these are publicly available yet, but I am attaching a file which gives you a brief summary of some key figures. There is a contact name and email so perhaps you can drop them a line?
Thanks Dina but it seems to describe a new system for notifying NOMS of deaths of probation clients (as from April 1st 2014) it's not reporting on absolute numbers of suicides. I'm really looking for missing aggregate data on suicide in probation from 2010-2014.
No you are right, but there were a few figures available on one of the later pages in the document, albeit as a summary.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help!
A publication from 2008 suggests rates are at least 13%:
Solomon, E. and Silvestri, A. (2008) Community Sentences Digest. Available at http://
www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/communitysentencesdigest2008.html [accessed December 2011].
This is a study with data between 2005 and 2010: http://www.criminallawandjustice.co.uk/features/Deaths-Probation
An Analysis of Data Regarding People Dying Under the Probation Service, is a report for the Howard League for Penal Reform by Loraine Gelsthorpe, Nicola Padfield and Jake Phillips, Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (2012) and can be accessed online at http://www.howardleague.org/deathson probation/
The following paper is recent and reports that 13% are at high risk:
Suicide Risk and Mental Health Co-morbidities in a Probationer Population by
Roberto Cardarelli, Elizabeth Balyakina, Kendra Malone, Kimberly G. Fulda, Michael Ellison, Ron Sivernell, Tanjina Shabu. Community Mental Health Journal
February 2015, Volume 51, Issue 2, pp 145-152.
Hope these will be of some help even though they don't really help with really recent figures.
Many thanks, Rachel, the 2015 publication by Carderelli et al looks very interesting. I knew the Howard League paper but as you say the data isn't recent. .
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