Stephen J Morewitz
California State University, USA
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Psychiatry
This investigation uses a case series of death incidents from the police classification of foul play project to analyze psychological, social and behavioral factors that predict whether the police will determine that bodies that are found in water are more likely to be classified as a mysterious death than a non-criminal drowning. Using death incidents involving the identification of bodies in water, this research shows that psychological, social and behavioral factors increase the probability that police will classify these types of death incidents as a mysterious death instead of a non-criminal drowning..
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