DIFFERENCES IN SUICDES BASED ON GENDER :

DIFFERENCES IN WAYS SUICIDE IS COMMITTED BY GENDER 

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WOMEN AND SUICIDE

Women who commit suicide use less violent methods, such as drugs and carbon monoxide poisoning, than do men, who more often use violent methods such as guns and hanging. Theories that attempt to explain this finding focus on gender differences in suicidal intent, socialization, emotions, interpersonal relationships, orientation and access to methods, and neurobiological factors. Data from a psychological autopsy study were used to test the theory that women who commit suicide use less violent means because they are less intent on dying. Although women were significantly less likely to use a violent method than men, there was no difference in the lethality of their suicidal intent.

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SUICIDAL METHODS AND THE GENDER DIFFERENCES IN MEANS

In MEN, the means of suicide was found to be as follows:

        1. firearms

        2. hanging

        3. suffocation

        4. jumping

        5. moving objects

        6. sharp objects

        7. carbon monoxide

In FEMALES, the means of suicide were found to be as follows:

        1. self-poisoning

        2. slitting wrists (then bleeding out)

        3. drowning

        4. hanging

        5. (least common means) firearms

With regard to suicide by firearms, research has found that men are more likely to shoot themselves in the head (which is more likely to be fatal) than women.The reason for this has been debated but could be related to less intent to die in women. Some have suggested that this could be, however, that cosmetic fears in women, should the attempt fail, play a role in the location of a gunshot.

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CONSIDERATIONS

1. Though profiling, typically, is deductive in its nature, it is 

important to be aware of statistics and crime trends when you

hear that someone died by manner of suicide. This is because of

the very differential, but reliable information, that is born out

in the very clear gender difference and manner of death between

the two genders.

2. What would flag a suicide as suspicious? A FEMALE, THAT COMMITTED SUICIDE BY FIREARM. This is the rarest scenario.The data automatically waives this means and manner of suicide, as suspicious, because of how misaligned it is with how females in totality chose to take their lives. A red flag doesn't always mean that you have found a smoking gun. A red flag is something that you mark to re-examine, when you have further context, and, possibly, further red flags. Suspicion in itself is just suspicion. But having said that, it's best to err on the side of caution so as not to overlook anything potentially important.

3. The Medical Examiner must work in conjunction with the police department in order to put the entire picture together evidentiary wise. The Medical Examiner must know, from their personnel or detectives, the all the background information from family, close friends, social media posts, blogs, journals, cell phone, etc., to better know the circumstances surrounding tracking her last 24 hours of life. Through Digital forensics, CellBrite, computer searches, any electronics that can do. searches, burner phones, actual tangible cell phone carrier information, any potential GPS activity on anyone's car telematics or cell phones.

4. The Medical Examiner or Coroner, may initially, rule one way, but upon further evidence, as gathered in field investigation, they too, can, with convincing evidence, change the manner of. death entirely. If you recall, most recently, this happened in the death of Tammy Daybell; Chad Daybell's wife. She was initially pronounced dead from natural causes and buried. When detectives grew suspicious, bc of information they learned in their field investigation, were able to both exumate her body, do an autopsy, and change the manner of death, with all available information, to indeed be a HOMICIDE.