ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at homicide, but also other forms of violence, especially self-directed ones. Death is superordinate to homicide. Like suicide, homicide is one category of the four universally recognized modes of death—what Edwin Shneidman called the NASH categories of death: natural, accident, suicide, and homicide. The close linking of suicide and murder is seen in the mechanism of seeing to be killed, to be punished for one's own transgressions particularly for one's own murderous feelings. The public typically distinguishes between homicide and suicide. They are seen as fundamentally different. Indeed, health professionals, police, coroners, politicians, the media, and so on distinguish between them. Police officers are no different from society at large in facing problems in regards to mental health. Police are not exempt from being perpetrators and potential victims of domestic violence. The Review Committee believes that prevention is the best intervention and education is the best tool to achieve this outcome.
