자살사건의 실증적 분석과 자살예방정책을 위한 제언 - 부산광역시 사례를 중심으로 -

The rate of deaths by suicide is reaching a very serious level, which is more increasing rather than deaths caused by criminal cases. That’s why social perception on suicides has changed and it serves as a momentum to plan prevention policies and confront the social problem at the national level. However during planning and pushing ahead of two nationwide prevention policies and forthcoming of legal grounds relevant in the process, there seems to be limits, so it is faced with a difficult situation to understand current situation and causes of suicide. In particular, while the phenomena of suicides were examined, the necessity of psychological autopsy was brought up. And in order to overcome the limits that findings of previous studies have been added during analysis of police statistics about suicide incidents of Busan, it is confirmed that individual, social and environmental factors around suicides should be identified appropriately. Therefore despite importance of precise investigation for current situation of suicides, looking basic structures of suicide prevention policies and the system of relevant laws, it is difficult to investigate. In order to settle this problem, the relevant laws should be established to gather and accumulate relevant information for the police in charge of protective measures of would be suicides and autopsy duties of persons who had died unnaturally during expansive policing. And the police can provide the results for full-scale implementing suicide protection policies and designing their improving ways.