The Routledge International Handbook of Juvenile Homicide

Kathleen M. Heide is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of South Florida (USF). Professor Heide was elected as a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science in recognition of her contributions in Criminology, particularly in the areas of juvenile homicide and parricide. Dr. Heide is also a licensed mental health professional actively involved in evaluating adolescent homicide offenders and treating survivors of trauma, including police officers. She has served as a court-appointed expert in matters relating to homicide, violence, and family and children. Dr. Heide also has been retained by the state and the defense to evaluate defendants charged with murder in 17 states and Canada. Professor Heide has authored or co-authored approximately 150 professional publications, including four monographs. Her book, Why Kids Kill Parents: Child Abuse and Adolescent Homicide, was the first scholarly book on the subject and is considered a seminal publication. Dr. Heide is also the author of two other books on homicide: Young Killers: The Challenge of Juvenile Homicide and Understanding Parricide: When Sons and Daughters Kill Parents. She is the co-author (with Linda Merz-Perez) of Animal Cruelty: Pathway to Violence Against People. Her research has also been featured by major news outlets around the world, and she has served as a consultant to the National Institute of Justice, National Institute of Health, many state agencies, and several law firms. Dr. Heide has served on 20 community boards or councils and has held two gubernatorial appointments to the Florida Sentencing Commission. She has received many awards from USF for teaching and research excellence and has been recognized for her accomplishments by many community and professional organizations. Dr. Heide was elected to full membership in the American Psychological Association in recognition of her contributions to the field of psychology. Dr. Heide has been invited to lecture on her research findings in several countries. For example, she was invited by Queen Sofia of Spain to present her research on juvenile homicide at the International Meeting on the Biology and Sociology of Violence: Youth Violence (2004). Professor Heide gave the opening plenary address on parricide at a homicide conference sponsored by the Australian government and Griffith university (2014). Dr. Heide recently delivered the opening plenary on juvenile homicide for a psychology and law conference in Taiwan and will be speaking there on juvenile parricide at another conference in Fall 2023. Kathleen holds a B.A. from Vassar College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She earned both her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University at Albany, State University of New York, School of Criminal Justice, where she received a Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award at commencement and was recognized as a distinguished alumna in 2007.

PART 1

Juvenile homicide today

1 Crime forecasting and the disappearing juvenile crime wave

James Alan Fox

2 The International handbook of juvenile homicide: The view from 30,000 feet

Kathleen M. Heide

3 Juvenile homicide offenders: A synopsis of the literature on characteristics and risk factors

Norair Khachatryan

PART II

Cross-national perspectives on juvenile homicide

4 Juvenile homicide in the United States

Kathleen M. Heide

5 Youth-involved/juvenile homicide cases in Canada

Adrienne M. F. Peters, Amanda R. Champion, and Raymond R. Corrado

6 Juvenile homicide in England and Wales

Rachel Condry, Caroline Miles, and Lucy Trafford

7 Juvenile homicide in the Netherlands

Pauline Aarten, Anne-Laura van Harmelen, and Marieke Liem

8 Juvenile homicide in Belgium

F. Jeane Gerard

9 Juvenile homicide in Australia

D. Jenny Cartwright

10 Cross-national trends and predictors of youth homicide victimization

Mateus R. Santos

PART III

Types of juvenile homicide offenders

11 School shootings and threat assessment

Dewey G. Cornell

12 Crime, conflict, and fighting for fun: Types of juvenile homicide offenders in Australia

Simone J. Deegan

13 Juvenile sexual homicide offenders: Clinical findings and considerations

Sanya Virani, Jason Andreas, Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan, and Wade Myers

14 Juvenile sexual homicide: A review of offender, victim, and offense characteristics

Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan

PART IV

Age Considerations among juvenile homicide offenders

15 Male juvenile homicide offenders: Developmental and empirical differences among young boys, pre-teens, and teens who kill

Brian G. Sellers and Kathleen M. Heide

16 Child perpetrators of homicide, suicide, and unintentional firearm fatalities in the United States

Sara J. Solnick and David Hemenway

PART V

Gender differences among juvenile homicide offenders

17 An empirically-derived typology of male juvenile homicide offenders in the United States

Cedric Michel, Kathleen Heide, Bryanna Fox, John Cochran, and Norair Khachatryan

18 Statistical profiles of female juvenile homicide offenders: A latent class analysis

John Cochran, Kathleen Heide, Bryanna Fox, and Norair Khachatryan

PART VI

Family homicides perpetrated by juvenile homicide offenders

19 Understanding Parricide: Pathways to killing parents

Kathleen M. Heide

20 Juvenile involvement in double parricide and familicide in the U.S.

Averi R. Fegadel

PART VII

Causes, correlates, and theoretical explanations of juvenile homicide offending

21 Why kids kill: Sociological Perspectives of juvenile homicide

Wesley G. Jennings and Nicholas M. Perez

22 Psychological Perspectives on juvenile homicide

Chae M. Jaynes and Deanna N. Devlin

23 Biological and psychological effects of trauma

Eldra P. Solomon and Kathleen M. Heide

24 Why do juveniles kill: An ecological perspective on the developmental dynamics

James Garbarino

25 Evolutionary perspectives on juvenile homicide offending

Madeleine K. Meehan and Todd K. Shackelford

PART VIII

Clinical observations by experienced juvenile homicide offender forensic evaluators

26 Clinical impressions of juvenile homicide offenders

James Garbarino

27 “Nuts and bolts” of conducting forensic evaluations of juvenile homicide offenders

Kathleen M. Heide

28 Juvenile homicide offenders: Is there evidence they mature over time?

Kathleen M. Heide

PART IX

Treatment of juvenile homicide offenders

29 Innovative treatment for juvenile homicide: A dose-response analysis of recidivism outcomes

Darin R. Haerle

30 Effective treatment of severely aggressive youth with callous-unemotional traits

Michael F. Caldwell and Brendan M. Caldwell

PART X

Competency, culpability, and sentencing considerations regarding juvenile homicide offenders

31 Adolescent development and justice; bridging science with practice – how should the legal system respond to juveniles charged with homicide? A developmental perspective

Colleen Brown, Jordan Beardslee, and Elizabeth Cauffman

32 From “transient immaturity” to a permanent transformation: Jack’s story

Frank DiCataldo

33 Risk assessment for juvenile homicide offenders: Best practices and a cautionary note

Jaymes Fairfax-Columbo, Sarah Fishel, Haleh Kanani, and David DeMatteo

34 Juveniles Sentenced to life in Australia – empirical findings

Simone J Deegan

35 Growing up incarcerated: A prisoner's perspective on the juvenile homicide offender experience

John Hovey (post-script by Carol Welch)

36 Juvenile homicide: Public perceptions and sentencing considerations

Kirk Heilbrun and Heidi Zapotocky

37 Ethical considerations in sentencing juvenile homicide offenders to adult prison

Brian G. Sellers

PART XI

Release, recidivism, and Prediction of juvenile homicide offenders

38 The Afterlife and discretional release of juvenile lifers

Simon Singer

39 Juvenile homicide offenders: Synthesis of findings on recidivism

Norair Khachatryan

40 Reentry Experiences and recidivism in a model program

Robert P. Blount III, Lillie A. Harris, and Shelsie Jeanty

41 The implications of Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) exposure for juvenile violent offending and homicide: An extension of prospective prediction of juvenile homicide/attempted homicide

Michael T. Baglivio and Kevin T. Wolff

42 Early Risk Factors for Juvenile and youthful homicide offenders in the Pittsburgh Youth Study

David P. Farrington, Lia Ahonen, and Rebecca M. Stallings

PART XII

Prevention of juvenile violence

43 A character education perspective on preventing youth violence

Marvin W Berkowitz, John C. Gibbs, and Ann-Marie DiBiase

44 Leveling the playing field: A developmental psychologist’s perspective

Danielle Nesi and James Garbarino

45 A biopsychosocial approach to interventions for violent offending

Olivia Choy and Farah Focquaert

46 Juvenile offenders of homicide and prevention suggestions

Karissa R. Pelletier and Jesenia M. Pizarro

PART XIII

Charting the course for the future

47 Addressing Serious Juvenile Violence: Recommendations for Policy and Practice

Jodi Lane

48 How to shift government policy from punishing to saving lives?

Audrey Monette and Irvin Waller