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Essay Instructions: Suicide is recognized as a critical problem within the jail environment for inmates faced with the issue of initial incarceration, but the issue of prison suicide has not received comparable attention. Although the rate of suicide in prisons is lower than in jails, it remains disproportionately high.

Your job is to conduct research on prison suicide and develop a policy to be implemented at your respective prison.

Assignment Guidelines

Part 1: The first section of your paper will be based on research.

-How prevalent is the incidence of prisoner suicide? Explain in detail.
-What factors seem to contribute the most to prisoner suicide? Explain in detail, and use scholarly and academic resources to fully support your arguments.
-What are the characteristics and histories of victims of prisoner suicide? Explain.
-Where and under what circumstances is prisoner suicide likely to occur? Be detailed in your response, and provide examples to support your arguments.
-Why are prison officials obligated to address the problem of prisoner suicide?
***You must research and identify studies of both state and federal inmates.***

Part 2: Develop a policy/program aimed at prevention of inmate suicide in your prison.
-Identify and describe key correctional departments and others, such as line staff, who should be involved in implementation of the policy and the role they should play.
***Be specific and detailed in your response when explaining the importance of line staff.***
-The policy should address major components such as:

Training
Identification
Referral
Assessment
Intervention

In your policy, identify the types of records that are to be maintained.
***The policy should reference state and national standards.***
***The policy should also reflect staff and budget considerations.***

***You should research standards set by the American Correctional Association, American Medical Association, and American Public Health Association, National Commission on Correctional Health Care Standards.***
Write in POLICY format
Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.

Essay Instructions: " Suicide in the Trenches " by Siegfried Sassoon

1- Interpretation of the Poem
2- Argument for the interpretation of the Poem
3- Cite three or more sources using MLA style
There are faxes for this order.

Essay Instructions: It would be helpful if the articles had something to do with African American Suicide, African American Spirituality/Beliefs or a similar research issue. The article needs to be one from the Counseling Field.


PART A ( Total 2 pages for Part A)

Retrieve two articles that use ANOVA from a peer-reviewed journal in your field. (2 pages)

Summarize the information in each of the articles you identified that use ANOVA. Provide the independent and dependent variables, the level of measurements of the variables, the number of variables that were analyzed, and a summary of the research questions. Evaluate the appropriateness of each statistical analysis used.

PART B (Total 2 pages for Part B)

Multivariate Analyses Articles

Retrieve two articles that use multivariate analyses from a peer-reviewed journal in your field.

For each article you identified in the studies, provide the independent and dependent variables, the level of measurements of the variables, the number of variables that were analyzed, and a summary of the research questions. Evaluate the appropriateness of each statistical analysis used.

Essay Instructions: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is a growing public health concern. Write a three page paper with approximately 225 words answering each question below.

1. Describe and discuss the rates of suicide for adults in the United states between the ages of 35-64.

2. What factors are likely to be contributing to increasing rates of suicide in some segments of the population?

3. What strategies have been used to prevent suicide? Have they been effective?

4. What alternative strategies might be used to prevent suicide?