Domestic Violence Fatality Reviews and the African American Community
This article reviews current knowledge about cultural competence for Black women abused by men in the United States, with suggested implications for domestic violence fatality review teams (DVFRTs). Help-seeking behaviors, coping strategies, historical context, and cultural values within the African American community are explored. These areas are further examined using a framework inclusive of the structure, goals, processes, outcomes, and barriers of DVFRTs. The implications for how DVFRTs can utilize this information are discussed. (Source: Homicide Studies)
Source: Homicide Studies - October 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bent-Goodley, T. B. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
The Implementation of Domestic Violence Death Reviews in Australia
This article describes the operational Australian domestic violence death review teams and the Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network. (Source: Homicide Studies)
Source: Homicide Studies - October 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bugeja, L., Butler, A., Buxton, E., Ehrat, H., Hayes, M., McIntyre, S.-J., Walsh, C. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Putting the Public Back in Public Health: An Argument for the Articulation of Fatality Reviews and Coroners' Inquests
Fatality reviews are part of the public health arsenal to mortality prevention. As such they rely on medico-legal practitioners’ participation. Yet medico-legal practice in the United States is still divided between the scientific approach of medical examiners systems and the political approach of coroners systems. I argue that this is related to the public’s reluctance to let go of its jurisdiction over death as a social fact. I posit that attempts at systematizing coroners’ inquests, as in Washington State, illustrate such resistance, yet could be conceived as a compromise between the political and the ...
Source: Homicide Studies - October 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Neuilly, M.-A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Fatality and Death Reviews
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Source: Homicide Studies - October 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dawson, M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Book Review: Among Murderers: Life After Prison
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Source: Homicide Studies - July 14, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Liem, M. Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Prevalence and Assessment of Malingering in Homicide Defendants Using the Mini-Mental State Examination and the Rey 15-Item Memory Test
This study surveyed malingering prevalence in pretrial homicide defendants and assessed the usefulness of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the Rey 15-Item Memory Test (FIT) in detecting malingering among them. Malingering prevalence was 17%. MMSE and FIT scores were positively correlated. The MMSE and FIT had modest positive predictive value (67% and 43%), but reasonably good negative predictive value (93% and 89%), for malingering. Overall, the MMSE outperformed the FIT, with no advantage to combined use of the MMSE and FIT over the MMSE. The widely used MMSE, traditionally a bedside test of cognition, may hav...
Source: Homicide Studies - July 14, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Myers, W. C., Hall, R. C. W., Tolou-Shams, M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Homicide and Organized Crime in England
This article reports results of a study identifying and analyzing the 17 homicides (from a total 696 recorded non-terrorist homicides) committed as part of organized crime in England and Wales in 2005-2006. Homicides related to organized crime were found to follow from inter group rivalries, tensions within the same organized crime group, or police/citizen resistance during armed robbery. The motivations of the homicides can be broadly categorized as instrumental or expressive. Suggestions are made for further research on the conditions surrounding such homicides and on the relative rarity of organized crime related homici...
Source: Homicide Studies - July 14, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hopkins, M., Tilley, N., Gibson, K. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
The Gang Problem: Fabricated Panics or Real Temporal Patterns?
This article examines FBI Supplemental Homicide data on youth gang killings and National Youth Gang Survey data on estimated gang members in relation to LexisNexis and Vanderbilt Television News Archive data on media coverage of gangs. Overall, the results support a realist view that surges or trends in the gang problem were actual patterns based on real events rather than media or law enforcement fabrications. (Source: Homicide Studies)
Source: Homicide Studies - July 14, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jensen, G. F., Thibodeaux, J. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
A Comparative Analysis of Suicide Terrorists and Rampage, Workplace, and School Shooters in the United States From 1990 to 2010
This study presents results from the first combined quantitative assessment and comparative analysis of suicide terrorists and rampage, workplace, and school shooters who attempt suicide. Findings suggest that in the United States from 1990 to 2010, the differences between these offenders (N = 81) were largely superficial. Prior to their attacks, they struggled with many of the same personal problems, including social marginalization, family problems, work or school problems, and precipitating crisis events. Ultimately, patterns among all four types of offenders can assist those developing security policy, conducting threa...
Source: Homicide Studies - July 14, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lankford, A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Victim Precipitation: Further Understanding the Linkage Between Victimization and Offending in Homicide
Studies assessing the overlap between victimization and offending have yet to include an examination of this phenomenon within victim precipitated homicide. In recognition of this gap in the literature, this study draws from official police data pertaining to 895 homicide incidents in Dallas, Texas to test the hypothesis that the victim-offender overlap is most prevalent within victim precipitated homicides, particularly when victims’ offending histories are considered. Results from a series of bivariate and multivariate models find that victims with criminal histories (i.e., victim-offenders) are most concentrated w...
Source: Homicide Studies - July 14, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Muftic, L. R., Hunt, D. E. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Estimates of Homicide-Suicides Among the Elderly, 1968 to 1975
This article describes homicide-suicide among those aged 65 years and older in the United States using archival data from 1968 to 1975. Comparisons were made between 184 homicide-suicides and 400 randomly selected victims of all other types of homicide. The findings indicate that homicide-suicides occurred predominantly in the family unit, especially involving female spouses, and among White victims and offenders. Handguns and other firearms were the weapon of choice in homicide-suicides. (Source: Homicide Studies)
Source: Homicide Studies - April 10, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bridges, F. S. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Patterns and Trends in Elder Homicide Across Race and Ethnicity, 1985-2009
In this report, we assess total and race/ethnicity-disaggregated patterns and temporal trends in elderly homicide (age 55-74) compared with younger age groups for the 1985-to-2009 period. To do this, we use California arrest statistics that provide annual homicide figures by race and ethnicity (including a Hispanic identifier) and by age. Major aims of our analysis are to establish whether (a) elderly homicide rates are different/similar across race/ethnic comparisons; (b) the elderly share of homicide and age-homicide distributions more generally differ across race/ethnicity; and (c) elderly rates of homicide and the shar...
Source: Homicide Studies - April 10, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Feldmeyer, B., Steffensmeier, D. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Lifestyle, Routine Activities, and Felony-Related Eldercide
The overrepresentation of felony-related incidents is a distinctive and interesting feature of eldercide. The current study examines the relationship between macro-level elderly-specific lifestyle and routine daily activity measures and felony-related eldercide in 195 American cities. Results from a negative binomial log-rate model indicate that the percentages of older adults living alone and with disability and the robbery rate (a proxy for exposure to felony-related eldercide) were positively associated with rates of felony-related eldercide. The relationship between the percentage of older adults not working and felony...
Source: Homicide Studies - April 10, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Roberts, A., Willits, D. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Homicide Against or by the Elderly in Chicago 1965-2000
Typical circumstances under which the elderly are killed not only differ from typical circumstances under which children or younger adults are killed, but also vary depending on the victim’s gender and age group (ages 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, 75-79, 80-84, and 85 or older). Similarly, the typical circumstances under which the elderly commit homicide not only differ from typical circumstances for other offenders, but vary according to the offender’s gender and age group. In analysis of victim-level and offender-level versions of the Chicago Homicide Data set, we describe trends over time and situational patterns in ...
Source: Homicide Studies - April 10, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Block, C. R. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Who You Calling Old? Measuring "Elderly" and What It Means for Homicide Research
Although Americans are less likely to experience violent crime as they age, research interest in elderly victims of violence is growing. An initial question that has been overlooked concerns how best to measure "elderly." In the homicide literature, the most common definition is a single category of age 65 and older. With U.S. adults living longer, healthier, and more active lives, use of a single category may no longer adequately capture this heterogeneous population. The present study explores how a multiple-category definition of elderly might inform the study of homicide by identifying patterns that could promote more ...
Source: Homicide Studies - April 10, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Addington, L. A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
