Handbook of Homicide (eBook)

Fiona Brookman is Professor of Criminology at the University of South Wales, UK. She is the author of Understanding Homicide (2005) and co-editor of Handbook on Crime (2010). She has written over fifty articles and chapters on various themes related to violence and homicide. Edward R. Maguire is Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Associate Director in the Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety at Arizona State University, USA. He has written or edited four books and more than seventy articles and chapters on various themes related to policing, violence, research methodology, and comparative criminology. Mike Maguire is Part-Time Professor of Criminology at the University of South Wales, UK and Professor Emeritus at Cardiff University, UK. He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (5th edition, 2012), and is a long-standing member of the Correctional Services Accreditation and Advice Panel.

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1. Murderous Thoughts: Examining the Macro, Micro and Momentary in Accounting for Fatal Violence
Martin Innes, Sarah Tucker, and Helen Innes

2. Global Patterns and Trends in Homicide
Meghan L. Rogers, and William Alex Pridemore

3. Some Trends in Homicide and Its Age-Crime Curves
Alfred Blumstein

4. Social and Legal Responses to Homicide
Mark Cooney

5. Gang Homicide in the United States: What we Know and future research directions
Jesenia M. Pizzaro

6. Drug-Related Homicide
Sean Varano, and Joseph B. Kuhns

7. Sexual homicide: A Review of Recent Empirical Evidence (2008 to 2015)
Oliver Chan

8. When Women are Murdered
Rebecca E. Dobash and Russell P. Dobash

9. Women Murdered in the Name of "Honour"
Aisha K. Gill

10. Hate and Homicide: Exploring the extremes of prejudice-motivated violence
Nathan Hall

11. Infanticide
Carl P. Malmquist

12. Parricide Encapsulated
Kathleen M. Heide

13. Corporate Homicide, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Human Rights
Gary Slapper

14. Empirical Challenges to Studying Terrorism and Homicide
Joseph K. Young, and Erin M. Kearns

15. Multiple Homicide: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder
Jack Levin, and James Alan Fox

16. Genocide & State Sponsored Killing
Andy Aydyn-Aitchison

17. Homicide in Europe
Marieke Liem

18. Comparing characteristics of homicides in Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden
Soenita M. Ganpat

19. Homicide in Britain
Fiona Brookman, Helen Jones and Sophie Pike

20.Homicide in Canada
Myrna Dawson

21. Typifying American Exceptionalism: Homicide in the USA
Amanda L. Robinson & Christopher D. Maxwell

22. Homicide in Japan
Tom Ellis and Koichi Hamai

23. Homicide in Australia and New Zealand: Precursors and Prevention
Paul Mazerolle, Li Eriksson, Richard Wortley, and Holly Johnson

24. Drivers of Homicide in Latin America and the Caribbean
Erik Alda

25. Homicide in Russia: Issues of measuring and theoretical explanations
Alexandra V. Lysova, and Nikolay G. Shchitov

26. Understanding Homicide in China
Liqun Cao

27. Homicide in India: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Jaishankar Karuppannan and Debarati Halder

28. Homicide in South Africa
Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard

29. Technology and Homicide Investigation
Patrick Brady, and William King

30. Solving Homicide: Trends, Causes, and Ways to Improve
Charles Wellford, and Thomas S. Alexander

31. Using DNA in the Investigation of Homicide: Scientific, Operational and Evidential Considerations
Robin Williams

32. Cold Case Homicide Investigation
Cheryl Allsop

33. A Damning Cascade of Investigative Errors: Flaws in Homicide Investigation in the USA
Deborah Davis, and Richard Leo

34. Seeing and Treating Violence as a Health Issue
Charles Ranford, and Gary Slutkin

35. Identifying and Intervening in Homicide Networks
Andrew Fox, and Olivia R. Allen

36. Focused deterrence and the Reduction of Gang Homicide
Anthony Braga

37. From Theory to Practice: Reducing Gun Violence and Homicide in Detroit
Eric Grommon, John D. McCluskey, and Timothy S. Bynum

38. Preventing Homicide
Edward R. Maguire

Index

"The Handbook of Homicide will be an invaluable resource to those interested in understanding the phenomenon in all its diversity and complexity." - Thomas P. Abt, Harvard Kennedy School

"Murder, the gravest of human transgressions, and other varities of homicide are treated in exhaustive breadth in this volume. The geographic and topical scope are impressive. There are contributions both fascinationg for scholars of homicide and useful for those charged with keeping it from happening and solving it when it does. How much of cross-national variation in homicide statistics reflects real differences in rates of killing rather than differences in definition and reporting practices? What are the non-legal factors influencing how severely different killings are sactioned? What is corporate homicide? Why is DNA rarely a smoking gun? These, among many other questiosn asked and answered, make this an interesting and valuable collection.' - Joel Wallman, The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation for the Study of Violence