Steven Stack | |
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Nationality | American |
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]
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]
Steven Stack | |
---|---|
Nationality | American |
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]
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]