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ArticlePsychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law2019

Instances of online suicide, the law and potential solutions.

James G Phillips, Kate Diesfeld, Leon Mann

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Article in Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

James G PhillipsPsychology Department, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0002-3125-4009
Kate DiesfeldDepartment of Public Health, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0002-8117-551X
Leon MannMelbourne Melbourne School of Psychological Science, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-2495-1022

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To understand the social and legal issues posed by suicide-related communications over the Internet (messages of threatened suicide and advocated suicide), this article examines a selection of cases involving different types of online baiting and harassment that illustrate different legal and technological issues. The anonymity afforded by computer-mediated communication allows bullies to harass vulnerable individuals and leak (disclose) their personal information. Computer mediation of communication potentially diffuses responsibility; imposes a temporal asynchrony between signified intent and audience response; and reduces the empathy that might motivate observers or witnesses to intervene and render assistance, factors that make online baiting a serious social, legal and technological problem. Potential actions (both legal and technological) for addressing this problem are outlined.

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Internetinterventionlegalsuicidewebcam

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PMID31984087
PMCPMC6762158

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