The Routledge International Handbook of Homicide Investigation

Cheryl Allsop is Senior Lecturer at the University of South Wales. Cheryl obtained her ESRC-funded PhD, which focused on how the police seek to solve long-term unsolved murders and stranger rapes, from Cardi_ University. Sophie Pike is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Bath Spa University. She obtained her doctorate from the University of South Wales, and her research explored the ways in which the police investigation of homicide in England and Wales has changed since the 1980s.

Introduction
Cheryl Allsop and Sophie Pike

PART I: Homicide Investigations Worldwide

1 Behind the (Crime) Scenes: Researching the History of Homicide Investigation in England and Wales
Sophie Pike

2 Homicide Investigations in Norway
Ivar Fahsing, Tor Kallmyr and Frode Lier

3 Homicide Investigations in Australia
Amber C. McKinley

4 Homicide Investigations in the United States
Richard M. Hough and Kimberly D. McCorkle

PART II: Homicide Investigations: In Practice

5 Homicide Detectives: Transformational Change and Challenges
Martin O’Neill, Stephen Tong and Stephen Clayman

6 Being a SIO
Mark O’Shea

7 Investigative Decision-Making in Homicide Investigations
Gareth Bevan

8 The Use of Digital Evidence in Homicide Investigations
Dana Wilson-Kovacs, Helen Jones and Fiona Brookman

9 The Commercialisation of Forensic Science and the Investigation of Homicide in England and Wales
Rhian Kinsella

10 Forensic Entomology in Death Investigations
Jacqueline Spicer

11 Social Network Analysis in Homicide Investigations
Maureen Taylor

12 The Role of the Media in Homicide Investigations
Liam Ralph

13 How Psychologists Can Help the Police in Homicide Cases
Mike Berry

14 Investigative Interviewing on Homicide Investigations
Jennifer Holmes

15 Eyewitness Memory
Rui Paulo

16 Behaviour Sequence Analysis in Homicide Investigations
David A. Keatley

17 Geographic Profiling in Murder Investigations
D. Kim Rossmo

PART III: Homicide Investigation in Different Contexts

18 Domestic Homicide Reviews and Investigating Domestic Homicide
Grace Boughton

19 ‘Honour’-Based Femicide
Aisha K. Gill

20 The Investigation of Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide
Victoria Roper

21 Missing, Murdered and Hidden
Helen Jones and Cheryl Allsop

22 Whodunit, Howdunit, Whydunit? How Detectives Think About and Investigate Complex ‘Hard to Solve’ Murders
Martin Innes and Fiona Brookman

PART IV: Homicide Investigations: Working With Survivors

23 Homicide Investigations and Survivors of Homicide
Cheryl Allsop and Sophie Pike

24 Secondary Victims of Homicide and Restorative Justice
Paul Gavin

25 The Emotional Impact of Homicide Investigation: A Neglected but Vital Issue
Janet Foster

26 Homicide Investigation and Miscarriages of Justice
Carole McCartney, Cheryl Allsop and Sophie Pike