"The Routledge Handbook of Homicide Studies comprehensively examines the topic of homicide from a diverse collection of perspectives and backgrounds. It brings together original contributions on homicide, with a focus on the broad range of impacts of homicide from a multitude of disciplines that evaluate and examine homicide in actual practice and theory. The editors have assembled a comprehensive collection highlighting the multifaceted causes and ramifications of homicide both across the United States and globally with chapters exploring the current state of homicide, typologies of homicides offenders, causes and correlates of homicide, homicides and the criminal justice system, and a professional observations chapters authored by some of the leading practicing professionals in the world, many who have made pivotal contributions to the evaluation and investigation of homicide offenders and cases. Providing state-of-the-art scholarship on homicide in modern society, this handbook is key collection and an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and practitioners engaged in the study of homicide across a diverse range of disciplines including criminal justice and criminology, psychology, sociology, forensics, interdisciplinary departments, and socio-legal studies"--
This book comprehensively examines the topic of homicide from a diverse collection of perspectives and backgrounds. It brings together original contributions on homicide, with a focus on the broad range of impacts of homicide from a multitude of disciplines that evaluate and examine homicide in actual practice and theory.
The Routledge Handbook of Homicide Studies comprehensively examines the topic of homicide from a diverse collection of perspectives and backgrounds. It brings together original contributions on homicide, with a focus on the broad range of impacts of homicide from a multitude of disciplines that evaluate and examine homicide in actual practice and theory. The editors have assembled a comprehensive collection highlighting the multifaceted causes and ramifications of homicide both across the United States and globally, with chapters exploring the current state of homicide, typologies of homicides offenders, causes and correlates of homicide, homicides and the criminal justice system, and a professional observations chapters authored by some of the leading practicing professionals in the world, many of whom have made pivotal contributions to the evaluation and investigation of homicide offenders and cases.
Providing state-of-the-art scholarship on homicide in modern society, this handbook is a key collection and an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and practitioners engaged in the study of homicide across a diverse range of disciplines, including criminal justice and criminology, psychology, sociology, forensics, interdisciplinary departments, and sociolegal studies.
1. Introduction PART 1 Current State of Homicide
2. Global Trends in
Homicide: A Comparison between the UNODC Homicide Data and the WHO Mortality
Database
3. Latin American Homicide
4. Murder as Violent Extremism
5. The
Coming Crisis in Criminal Justice: True Crime as a Cultural Anomaly
6.
Theoretical and Empirical Considerations for Examining Homicide Perpetration
among Military Veterans
7. Homicidal Ideation
8. Mass Shootings in the United
States and Beyond: Definitions, Contexts, and Controversies PART 2 Types of
Homicide
9. Intimate Partner Homicide
10. Youth Homicide Offenders: A Review
of Recent Literature
11. Legal Homicide
12. The Serial Murder Phenomenon Half
a Century On
13. Gazing into the Abyss? Making Sense of Extreme Crime Scene
Behaviors in Sexual Homicide
14. Fetal Abduction by Maternal Evisceration
(FAMAE): A Forensic Psychiatric Syndrome PART 3 Causes and Correlates of
Homicide
15. Homicide and Criminal Careers: An Empirical Study on Serial
Murderers
16. Adverse Childhood Experiences and Homicide
17. A Descriptive
Examination of Homicide and the VictimOffender Overlap
18. Barriocide
Reloaded: An Updated Analysis of the Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of
Gang Homicide in East Los Angeles
19. Immigration and Homicide: From Eastern
Europe to the U.S.Mexico Border
20. Self-Control, Homicide Offending, and
Homicide Victimization
21. Homicide and Psychosis
22. The Role of Psychopathy
in Homicide among Juveniles: A Review of the Research
23. Sexual Homicide:
Does Anything Matter Beyond Sexual Sadism? PART 4 Homicide and the Criminal
Justice System
24. Homicide and Criminal Justice Policy
25. Juvenile Homicide
Offending: First-Time Offense or Escalation of Criminal Offending?
26.
Policing Homicide in Urban and Rural Areas
27. Homicide Clearances
28.
Contemporary Challenges in Homicide Investigation
29. The Flow of Homicide
Cases through the Criminal Justice Funnel
30. The Processing of Homicide in
American Courts
31. Prison Homicide
32. Condemned Homicide Offenders and
Externalizing Psychopathology PART 5 Professional Observations
33. Juvenile
Homicide Offenders: Do They Become More Responsible over Time?
34. Cold Case
Homicide: Trends, Challenges, and Context
35. Homicide and Death
Investigation
36. Selected Homicide Themes in Los Angeles County
37. The
Normal and the Pathological
Kyle A. Burgason, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of Graduate Education in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Iowa State University, USA. His research interests include policing, ethics in criminal justice, race and crime, criminological theory, structural and cultural context of violent crime and victimization, capital punishment, and optimal foraging theorys applications to crime.
Matt DeLisi, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Deans Professor, Coordinator of Criminal Justice, and Faculty Affiliate of the Center for the Study of Violence at Iowa State University, USA. A renowned scholar, Professor DeLisi is one of the most influential and prolific criminologists in the world with over 460 scholarly publications, including over 30 books on an array of topics in the social, behavioral, and forensic sciences.
