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This research is a literature review of a compilation of various information sources and its findings on the rate of suicide in the Australian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal population and examines the possible causes for differences. ...
Printed Journals
Ogilvie starts off addressing the definitions of suicide in general that of seeking attention as a form of crying for help and also the sociology behind the social behavior of inflicting mayhem and causing disturbance in society. ... He says, “A low education, coupled with the onset of the magnitude of social problems which will form in the early stages of social development, problems like poor health, low or nil income from employment due to the lack of schooling, reinforces the processes of poverty in a large proportion of the Aboriginal population in Australia. ... ” (Ogilvie, 1994)
Conference Proceedings (Electronic)
This conference proceeding discusses issues pertaining that of the Aboriginal destructive behavior and tendencies and the role of prison and police interaction with the Aboriginal population. ... ’ (McKillop, 1990) It indicates that suicide is likely to be caused by other self-destructive behaviors like, ‘substance abuses and unnatural deaths’. ... (McKillop, 1990)
Electronic Journals
As Tatz, (1999) points out, “Aboriginal youths rarely experience autonomy, self-fulfillment, or personal sovereignty over their physical, material or internal lives” and Tatz (1999) goes on to say that several parasuicides have indicated that they perceive suicide as their only way avenue to “realize their own will”. ... Tatz, (1999) mentions that Aboriginal people feel the direct effects of racism and alienation. ... ” It seems that Australian Aboriginal is prone to be a part of the ever increasing death toll in Western Australia.
Reference Work (Bibliography)
The Australian Institute of Criminology’s bibliography on Deaths in Custody, talks of questions concerning the increase numbers in aboriginal suicide and the public’s sparked interest.
Approximate Word count = 1404
Approximate Pages = 5.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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