Steven Stack

Steven Stack is an American sociologist and professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Wayne State University, where he is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience.

Steven Stack
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Connecticut
Known forSuicide prevention
Awards2004 Ig Nobel Prize (with James Gundlach)
Scientific career
FieldsSociology
Criminology
InstitutionsWayne State University
ThesisInequality in Industrial Society: Income Distribution in Capitalist and Socialist Nations (1976)

He is known for his research on suicide prevention,[1][2] including on the effects of media coverage of suicides on copycat suicides.[3][4] He has also researched other forms of violence, including homicide and murder-suicide.[2][5]

Awards

In 2003, Stack received the Louis Dublin Award from the American Association of Suicidology.[1] Along with Auburn University's James Gundlach, Stack received the 2004 Ig Nobel Prize for medicine for a 1992 study they co-authored on the relationship between country music and suicide rates.[6][7] In 2017, he became the first sociologist to receive the International Association for Suicide Prevention's Erwin Stengel Award.[8]

References
  1. Communications, Wayne State University Web. "Steven Stack". clasprofiles.wayne.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  2. Young, Stephen (2017-05-05). "A Rash of Murder-Suicides Highlights the Lack of Understanding Why They Happen". Dallas Observer. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  3. Szalavitz, Maia (2009-04-23). "Is Copycat Behavior Driving Murder-Suicides?". Time. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  4. "Celebrity Suicide Prompts Copycats". WebMD. 2003-03-20. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  5. KATZ, JESSE (1997-05-20). "Executions in Texas: No Big Deal". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  6. Adam, David (2004-10-01). "Ig Nobel awards pay tribute to world's oddballs". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  7. Lenzer, Jeanne (2004-10-07). "Can country music drive you to suicide?". BMJ. 329 (7470): 817. doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7470.817-a. ISSN 0959-8138. PMC 521600.
  8. "Awards". Footnotes. American Sociological Association. September–October 2017. Retrieved 2018-04-12.


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