Fatal and Non-Fatal Intimate Partner Violence: What Separates the Men From the Women for Victimizations Reported to Police?
This study compares the characteristics that predict female and male IPV victimization. Given the role that law enforcement can play in promoting victim assistance programs, police data are used to explore this issue. This study finds that victim sex differences do exist within and across lethal and non-lethal IPV. These findings are discussed as well as their implications for future policy and research. (Source: Homicide Studies)
Source: Homicide Studies - April 23, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Addington, L. A., Perumean-Chaney, S. E. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Exploring the Role of Victim Sex, Victim Conduct, and Victim-Defendant Relationship in Capital Punishment Sentencing
Disparities in the administration of capital punishment are a prominent social and political issue. Recent studies indicate that victim characteristics of sex and race produce interactive effects on capital-sentencing outcomes. Extending this line of research, the current analysis explores the intersection of victim sex with victim conduct and victim–defendant relationship, utilizing a population of North Carolina capital cases spanning the years 1977 to 2009 (N = 1,285). Findings indicate that cases with a female victim who was not involved in illegal activity at the time of the murder and acquaintance female victim...
Source: Homicide Studies - April 23, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gillespie, L. K., Loughran, T. A., Smith, M. D., Fogel, S. J., Bjerregaard, B. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Revisiting the Quality and Use of Race-Specific Homicide Data: Exploring Substantive Implications
Our research revisits prior work by Neapolitan (2005) on the quality and use of race-specific homicide data. Neapolitan reported that correlations between Black homicide offending rates based on arrest data and rates based on data from the Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR) for samples of large U.S. cities are only moderately strong. He proposed that, given these findings, the respective rates cannot be regarded as valid indicators of the same concept. We extend Neapolitan’s research by estimating regression models to determine the extent to which conclusions about the structural covariates of Black homicide offend...
Source: Homicide Studies - April 23, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Messner, S. F., Beaulieu, M., Isles, S. N., Mitchell, L. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Homicide Studies: Special Issue on Measurement Issues in Homicide Research
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Source: Homicide Studies - January 13, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Call for Papers Source Type: research
Mass Shootings in America: Moving Beyond Newtown
This article examines a variety of myths and misconceptions about multiple homicide and mass shooters, pointing out some of the difficult realities in trying to avert these murderous rampages. While many of the policy proposals are worthwhile in general, their prospects for reducing the risk of mass murder are limited. (Source: Homicide Studies)
Source: Homicide Studies - January 13, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Fox, J. A., DeLateur, M. J. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Shooting for Accuracy: Comparing Data Sources on Mass Murder
In this study, we compare similarities and differences for mass murder cases in the United States as portrayed by selected mass media sources. Then, we turn our focus to a comparison of the Uniform Crime Reports’ (UCR) Supplementary Homicide Report (SHR) and the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). Our primary focus is on mass murders involving four or more fatalities—not including the perpetrator—that have occurred between 2001 and 2010. Implications for enhancing the comprehensiveness and quality of mass murder data with the goal of increasing their usefulness for guiding prevention and ris...
Source: Homicide Studies - January 13, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Huff-Corzine, L., McCutcheon, J. C., Corzine, J., Jarvis, J. P., Tetzlaff-Bemiller, M. J., Weller, M., Landon, M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
The Routine of Mass Murder in China
Using data obtained from 165 mass murders in China, this research examines the crime of mass murder through a routine activities perspective as it relates to the location of where they occur (rural areas), while taking into consideration the motivation (revenge and profit), and most common weapon (knife) used. This adds to the literature on mass murders and routine activities theory from an area (China) where little academic research has been published regarding this crime. (Source: Homicide Studies)
Source: Homicide Studies - January 13, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hilal, S. M., Densley, J. A., Li, S. D., Ma, Y. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
The Female Family Annihilator: An Exploratory Study
This study explores patterns among female family annihilators using a non-random sample (n = 7), where offenders killed four or more family members during a single homicidal event. Acts of maternal familicide are measured against the family annihilator profile. Overall, many variables remain consistent across gender, but there appear to be substantive differences in motivation, spousal murder attempt, and the role of alcohol. Findings suggest that research on the family annihilator needs to be more inclusive of women, including use of more gender-neutral language. Practical and theoretical implications are discussed, and a...
Source: Homicide Studies - January 13, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Scott, H., Fleming, K. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Patterns of Multiple Family Homicide
Previous research has treated multiple family homicide, or familicide, as a uniform event. We sought to explore whether subtypes of familicide could be discerned, making use of a decade of Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR) coupled with newspaper articles. The resulting 238 cases were analyzed through a two-step cluster analysis, showing that the familicides can be subgrouped into four categories based on the perpetrator’s age, relationship between perpetrator and victims, and perpetrator’s suicide. The empirically grouped categories were labeled Despondent Husbands, Spousal Revenge, Extended Parricide, and D...
Source: Homicide Studies - January 13, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Liem, M., Reichelmann, A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Media Salience and the Framing of Mass Murder in Schools: A Comparison of the Columbine and Sandy Hook Massacres
This study applies the two-dimensional analytic framework introduced by Chyi and McCombs to examine the frame-changing differences between two highly salient school shootings. A content analysis was conducted using the New York Times coverage of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The findings of this study indicate that while Columbine set the precedent for how the media covers school shootings, the coverage of Sandy Hook illustrates a departure from this model and potentially reshapes the way that these events are covered. (Source: Homicide Studies)
Source: Homicide Studies - January 13, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Schildkraut, J., Muschert, G. W. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Animal Abuse as a Warning Sign of School Massacres: A Critique and Refinement
This study investigates the quantity and quality of cruelty present in a sample of 23 perpetrators of school massacres from 1988 to 2012. Findings indicate that 43% of the perpetrators commit animal cruelty before schoolyard massacres and that the cruelty is usually directed against anthropomorphized species (dogs and cats) in an up-close manner. The implications of these findings for reducing false positive cases of cruelty are discussed. (Source: Homicide Studies)
Source: Homicide Studies - January 13, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Arluke, A., Madfis, E. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Mass Murder in Perspective: Guest Editor's Introduction
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Source: Homicide Studies - January 13, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Levin, J. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Ethical Conundrums in Fatality Review Planning, Data Collection, and Reporting: Viewing the Work of Review Teams Through the Lens of Evaluation
The multidisciplinary, interprofessional practice of fatality review is quickly becoming more methodologically sophisticated. However, the discussion of ethical issues related to fatality review has been limited to the topics of confidentiality and the ethical guidelines of participant professions. We propose that the work of fatality review teams is similar to the research practice of evaluation. Using the Guiding Principles of Evaluation recommended by the American Evaluation Association (AEA), this paper begins an exploration of potential ethical conundrums faced by domestic violence fatality review teams and identifies...
Source: Homicide Studies - October 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Albright, D., Banks, L., Broidy, L., Crandall, C., Campos, G. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
The Domestic Violence Fatality Review: Can It Mobilize Community-Level Change?
Domestic Violence Fatality Review (DVFR) teams are a means of identifying systems’ gaps in the coordinated response to domestic violence. While the number of homicide reviews has grown, little is known about whether DVFRs facilitate change in the community-level response to domestic violence. This research evaluated whether the recommendations made by one state-level DVFR had an effect on community and organizational priorities and practices. The results indicate that the recommendations influence countywide priorities, but less was done to implement the recommendations. DVFRs have the capacity to influence community...
Source: Homicide Studies - October 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Storer, H. L., Lindhorst, T., Starr, K. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Counting and Accounting for Deaths in Australian Immigration Custody
This article is concerned with a subset of those deaths that can be classified as deaths in immigration custody. In the Australian context, official deaths in custody reporting has only included deaths in the custodial settings of prison, juvenile detention, and police custody, and during the apprehension of criminal suspects or escapees by police or prison authorities. Deaths that occur in immigration detention centers or while authorities attempt to take suspected "unlawful non-citizens" into Migration Act custody are not considered to be deaths in custody for the purposes of investigation and national monitoring. At lea...
Source: Homicide Studies - October 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Powell, R., Weber, L., Pickering, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
