Lawlor D, Kosky R
Longmore Remand Centre, Perth, West Australia.
Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 1992 Sep;26(3):474-8. doi: 10.3109/00048679209072073.
The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody has focused attention on people who are held in custody in police cells, prisons, remand centres and detention centres. A series of research papers has been released by the Royal Commission which delineates some important aspects of the needs of these people. Nearly half of the deaths which occur in these custodial settings appear to be self-inflicted. Suicide seems to be particularly common among younger age groups of those in custody [1,2]. This pattern parallels suicide levels among young people in the Australian community generally, so that suicide is now a leading cause of death among young Australians [3,4].
皇家原住民在押死亡调查委员会将注意力集中在被关押于警察牢房、监狱、还押中心和拘留中心的人员身上。该委员会发布了一系列研究论文，阐述了这些人员需求的一些重要方面。在这些羁押场所发生的死亡事件中，近一半似乎是自杀所致。自杀在被羁押的较年轻年龄组中似乎尤为常见[1,2]。这种模式与澳大利亚社区年轻人的自杀率总体情况相似，因此自杀现已成为澳大利亚年轻人的主要死因之一[3,4]。
