| 单词 | suicide by cop |
| 释义 | > as lemmassuicide by cop suicide by cop n. originally U.S. an incident in which a person intent on dying manipulates the police into fatally shooting him or her; this as a method of taking one's own life. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > suicide > [noun] > types of sati1806 satiism1828 hara-kiri1856 junshi1871 seppuku1871 ritual suicide1903 murder-suicide1904 autocide1923 mass suicide1937 doctor-assisted suicide1975 self-deliverance1975 self-deliveration1975 assisted suicide1976 suicide by cop1986 bullycide2001 1986 D. A. Soskis & C. R. Van Zandt in Behavioral Sci. & Law Autumn 434 A recently identified phenomenon that needs to be distinguished from the usual hostage situation has been called victim precipitated death or ‘suicide by cop’. 1997 M. R. Hammer & R. G. Rogan in R. G. Rogan et al. Dynamic Processes of Crisis Negotiation 12 In the case of a suicide-by-cop, a suspect may take hostages, or even kill them, in order to achieve the instrumental objective of being killed by the police. 1998 N.Y. Times 21 June iv. 3/1 ‘Why would you go and point a gun at a policeman?’ asked Michael Johnston, a..police officer involved in another suicide-by-cop incident... ‘You have to figure they're going to shoot you.’ 2015 G. Jerkins & J. Thomas Done in One viii. 89 He didn't have the guts to take his own life, so he tried the next best thing. Suicide by cop. < as lemmas |
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