Full Description
The Handbook of Homicide presents a series of original essays by renowned authors from around the world, reflecting the latest scholarship on the nature, causes, and patterns of homicide, as well as policies and practices for its investigation and prevention.
Includes comprehensive coverage of the complex phenomenon of homicide and its various forms
Features original contributions from an esteemed team of global experts and scholars with chapters highlighting the authors' original research
Represents the first internationally-focused collection of the latest research on the nature and causes of homicide
Covers both the causes and dynamics of homicide, as well as policies and practices intended to address it
Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction: Homicide in Global Perspective xix
Fiona Brookman, Edward R. Maguire, and Mike Maguire
Part I Homicide in Context 1
1 Murderous Thoughts: The Macro, Micro, and Momentary in Theorizing the Causes and Consequences of Criminal Homicide 3
Helen Innes, Sarah Tucker, and Martin Innes
2 Geographic and Temporal Variation in Cross-National Homicide Victimization Rates 20
Meghan L. Rogers and William Alex Pridemore
3 Some Trends in Homicide and Its Age-Crime Curves 44
Alfred Blumstein
4 Social and Legal Responses to Homicide 54
Mark Cooney
Part II Understanding Different Forms of Homicide 71
5 Gang Homicide in the United States: What We Know and Future Research Directions 73
Jesenia M. Pizarro
6 Drug-Related Homicide 89
Sean P. Varano and Joseph B. Kuhns
7 Sexual Homicide: A Review of Recent Empirical Evidence (2008 to 2015)105
Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan
8 When Women are Murdered 131
R. Emerson Dobash and Russell P. Dobash
9 Women Murdered in the Name of "Honor" 149
Aisha K. Gill
10 Hate and Homicide: Exploring the Extremes of Prejudice-Motivated Violence 165
Nathan Hall
11 Infanticide 180
Carl P. Malmquist
12 Parricide Encapsulated 197
Kathleen M. Heide
13 Corporate Homicide, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Human Rights 213
Gary Slapper
14 Empirical Challenges to Studying Terrorism and Homicide 231
Joseph K. Young and Erin M. Kearns
15 Multiple Homicide: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder 249
Jack Levin and James Alan Fox
16 Genocide and State-Sponsored Killing 268
Andy Aydın-Aitchison
Part III Homicide around the Globe: International Perspectives 289
17 Homicide in Europe 291
Marieke Liem
18 Comparing Characteristics of Homicides in Finland, the Netherlands, and Sweden 308
Soenita M. Ganpat
19 Homicide in Britain 320
Fiona Brookman, Helen Jones, and Sophie Pike
20 Homicide in Canada 345
Myrna Dawson
21 Typifying American Exceptionalism: Homicide in the USA 368
Amanda L. Robinson and Christopher D. Maxwell
22 Homicide in Japan 388
Tom Ellis and Koichi Hamai
23 Homicide in Australia and New Zealand: Precursors and Prevention 412
Paul Mazerolle, Li Eriksson, Richard Wortley, and Holly Johnson
24 Drivers of Homicide in Latin America and the Caribbean: Does Relative Political Capacity Matter? 432
Erik Alda
25 Homicide in Russia: Issues of Measuring and Theoretical Explanations 451
Alexandra Lysova and Nikolay Shchitov
26 Understanding Homicide in China 467
Liqun Cao
27 Homicide in India: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives 486
K. Jaishankar and Debarati Halder
28 Homicide in South Africa: Offender Perspectives on Dispute-related Killings of Men 499
Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard
Part IV Investigating Homicide 515
29 Technology and Homicide Investigation 517
Patrick Q. Brady and William R. King
30 Solving Homicides: Trends, Causes, and Ways to Improve 533
Thomas S. Alexander and Charles F. Wellford
31 Using DNA in the Investigation of Homicide: Scientific, Operational, and Evidential Considerations 548
Robin Williams
32 Cold Case Homicide Reviews 566
Cheryl Allsop
33 A Damning Cascade of Investigative Errors: Flaws in Homicide Investigation in the USA 578
Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo
Part V Reducing and Preventing Homicide 599
34 Seeing and Treating Violence as a Health Issue 601
Charles Ransford and Gary Slutkin
35 Identifying and Intervening in Homicide Networks 626
Andrew M. Fox and Olivia R. Allen
36 Focused Deterrence and the Reduction of Gang Homicide 643
Anthony A. Braga
37 From Theory to Practice: Reducing Gun Violence and Homicide in Detroit 659
Eric Grommon, John D. McCluskey, and Timothy S. Bynum
38 Preventing Homicide 676
Edward R. Maguire
Index 693
