About Steven Stack
Steven Stack was a sociologist and criminologist, known for Suicide prevention.
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.
He is known for his research on suicide prevention, including on the effects of media coverage of suicides on copycat suicides. He has also researched other forms of violence, including homicide and murder-suicide.
Awards In 2003, Stack received the Louis Dublin Award from the American Association of Suicidology. In 2017, he became the first sociologist to receive the International Association for Suicide Prevention's Erwin Stengel Award.
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