Aboriginal Suicide Is Different: A Portrait Of Life And Self Destruction by Tatz Colin - 2001

Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2001. Softcover. Very Good. Inscribed by Author. Size: 10"-12" Tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Aborigines; Inscribed by Author. ISBN: 0855753714. ISBN/EAN: 9780855753719. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 47234. . 9780855753719

Canberra, ACT, Australia: Australian Instutite of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 2001 191 pages. The cover has a little wear. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Paperback. Very Good. Size G: 10"-11" Tall (254-279mm).

Aboriginal Studies Press, 2004. In large illustrated wrappers. This report is the outcome of a project funded by the Criminology Research Council. The original title of the project, in the name of Colin Tatz was "Aboriginal youth suicide : towards a model of explanation and alleviation". In seeking to gain an understanding youth suicide in Aboriginal and Maori communities, Tatz examines the social and political contexts, the origins of the "new violence", the anthropology of suicide, the prevalence and nature of Aboriginal suicide, and social and contributing factors. What began as a 1999 report to Australia's Criminology Research Council has been expanded and personalized into a study of young Aboriginal men and women who feel they have no purpose in life and choose death instead. It focuses on New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, and New Zealand, where suicide rates may be the world's worst. Tatz (Macquarie U.) works to get behind the statistics to portray… Read More

Canberra, ACT, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2001. Usual library marks. 249 pages. . Soft Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.