Steven Stack
Steven Stack | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | University of Connecticut |
| Known for | Suicide prevention |
| Awards | 2004 Ig Nobel Prize (with James Gundlach) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Sociology Criminology |
| Institutions | Wayne State University |
| Thesis | Inequality in Industrial Society: Income Distribution in Capitalist and Socialist Nations (1976) |
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,[1][2] including on the effects of media coverage of suicides on copycat suicides.[3][4] He has also researched other forms of violence, including homicide and murder-suicide.[2][5]
Awards
[edit | edit source]In 2003, Stack received the Louis Dublin Award from the American Association of Suicidology.[1] Along with Auburn University's James Gundlach, Stack received the 2004 Ig Nobel Prize for medicine for a 1992 study they co-authored on the relationship between country music and suicide rates.[6][7] In 2017, he became the first sociologist to receive the International Association for Suicide Prevention's Erwin Stengel Award.[8]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Faculty page
- Steven Stack publications indexed by Google Scholar
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