Taylor, Paul J.Corteen, KarenMorley, Sharon2015-12-232015-12-232013-05-22Taylor, P., Corteen, K., & Morley, S. (2013). Service user suicides and coroner's inquests. Criminal Justice Matters, 92(1), 32-33. doi: 10.1080/09627251.2013.8053750962-725110.1080/09627251.2013.805375http://hdl.handle.net/10034/592533This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Criminal Justice Matters on 22nd May 2013, available online: DOI:10.1080/09627251.2013.805375The expansion of victimology in the 1980s produced a more nuanced understanding of victims and victimisation. Yet responses of government, criminal justice agencies, media and general public to victims are predictably and predominantly focused on victims of ‘conventional crime’. We challenge this perspective, thus widening the victimological lens. We discuss the impact of self-inflicted deaths and subsequent coronial inquests on practitioners working on behalf of the state.envictimisationhealth and social care professionalsArticle1934-6220Criminal Justice Matters