| Steven Stack | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Sociology Criminology |
| Workplaces: | Wayne State University |
| Alma Mater: | University of Connecticut |
| Thesis Title: | Inequality in Industrial Society: Income Distribution in Capitalist and Socialist Nations |
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| Thesis Year: | 1976 |
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| Known For: | Suicide prevention |
| Awards: | 2004 Ig Nobel Prize (with James Gundlach) |
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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]