Abstract

In the aftermath of a cluster of at least twenty suicides among correction officers working for a state department of correction, we conducted the first extensive mixed-methods study of correction officer suicide. Using a grounded theory approach, we sought to better understand the ways in which personal and occupational factors may have contributed to the suicide deaths of the officers. We conducted comprehensive case studies that involved reviewing each officer’s personnel file in its entirety, extracting administrative data to capture work experiences and violence exposures, and conducting interviews with family members and friends of the officers to better understand the personal and professional lives of those officers who had died by suicide. Through inductive analyses of the data collected, we found that the interaction of personal and occupational risk factors with aspects of the occupational work culture best explained suicide among the observed cases.

摘要

在为国家惩戒部门工作的惩戒人员中至少有20例自杀事件之后，我们进行了首次广泛的对惩戒人员自杀的混合方法研究。我们使用扎根的理论方法，试图更好地了解个人和职业因素可能导致官员自杀死亡的方式。我们进行了全面的案例研究，其中涉及全面审查每个人员的人事档案，提取管理数据以捕获工作经验和暴力暴露情况，并与人员的家人和朋友进行访谈，以更好地了解那些人员的个人和职业生活死于自杀。通过对收集到的数据进行归纳分析，