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Exculpating Injustice: Coroner Constructions of White Innocence in the Postbellum South

open access: yesSocius, 2021
Research notes the broad complicity of white public officials in historical racial violence and repression. These discussions emphasize the role of criminal justice actors in perpetrating and enabling this repression.
Sarah Gaby   +4 more
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Technology use among the nation’s medical examiner and coroner offices: Data from the 2018 Census of Medical Examiner and Coroner Offices [PDF]

open access: yesForensic Science International: Synergy
Technology uses among medical examiner and coroner (MEC) offices in the United States are not well characterized, yet technology is essential to job-performing duties.
Liat C. Weinstein   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Substance-Related Acute Toxicity Deaths in Canada From 2016 to 2017: Protocol for a Retrospective Chart Review Study of Coroner and Medical Examiner Files

open access: yesJMIR Public Health and Surveillance
BackgroundCanada continues to experience a national overdose crisis. While studies are available at the regional, provincial, and territorial levels, detailed national data regarding the burden and context of substance-related ...
Jenny Rotondo   +15 more
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Preventable suicides involving medicines: A systematic case series of coroners’ reports in England and Wales [PDF]

open access: yesPublic Health in Practice
Background: In England and Wales coroners have a duty to write a report, called a Prevention of Future Deaths report or PFD, when they believe that actions should be taken to prevent future deaths.
G. Anthony   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Suicide and the Therapeutic Coroner: Inquests, Governance and the Grieving Family

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2013
This study of English Coronial practice raises a number of questions about the role played by the Coroner within contemporary governance. Following observations at over 20 inquests into possible suicides and in-depth interviews with six Coroners, three ...
Gordon Tait, Belinda Carpenter
doaj   +2 more sources

Involvement of propranolol in suicides: cross-sectional study using coroner-reported data [PDF]

open access: yesBJPsych Open
Background Propranolol is a beta-blocker medication indicated mostly for heart rhythm conditions and for physical symptoms of anxiety. Prescriptions for propranolol in the UK have increased since 2008.
Hayley C. Gorton   +4 more
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Educational Case: Death Certification and the Role of the Medical Examiner/Coroner [PDF]

open access: goldAcademic Pathology, 2018
The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology.
Sarah Meyers MD
doaj   +2 more sources

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