Routledge Handbook of Homicide Studies

ISBN-13: 9781032505305 / Twarda / 2024 / 968 str.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part I: 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: Definition, Contexts, and Controversies  Part II: 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 III: 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 Victim-Offender 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 IIII: 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 V: 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

O autorze

Kyle A. Burgason, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of Graduate Education in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Iowa State University. 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 theory’s applications to crime.

Matt DeLisi, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s 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.