1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Homicide Studies
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
Kyle A. Burgason
PART 1 Current State of Homicide
2. Global Trends in Homicide: A Comparison between the UNODC Homicide Data and the WHO Mortality Database
Mateus Rennó Santos and Alexander Testa
3. Latin American Homicide
Guillermo Escano
4. Murder as Violent Extremism
Jeff Gruenewald, Grant Drawve, Brynn Schuetter and Kaitlyn Campbell
5. The Coming Crisis in Criminal Justice: True Crime as a Cultural Anomaly
James W. Marquart and Scott Belshaw
6. Theoretical and Empirical Considerations for Examining Homicide Perpetration among Military Veterans
Andrea R. Hazelwood and Matthew W. Logan
7. Homicidal Ideation
Michael G. Vaughn and Christine Sarteschi
8. Mass Shootings in the United States and Beyond: Definitions, Contexts, and Controversies
Jaclyn Schildkraut and Adam Lankford
PART 2 Types of Homicide
9. Intimate Partner Homicide
Alexandra Lysova
10. Youth Homicide Offenders: A Review of Recent Literature
F. Jeane Gerard and Norair Khachatryan
11. Legal Homicide
Thomas T. Zawisza
12. The Serial Murder Phenomenon Half a Century On
Enzo Yaksic
13. Gazing into the Abyss? Making Sense of Extreme Crime Scene Behaviors in Sexual Homicide
Eric Beauregard and Julien Chopin
14. Fetal Abduction by Maternal Evisceration (FAMAE): A Forensic Psychiatric Syndrome
Michael Welner, Ann Burgess and Kate Y. O’Malley
PART 3 Causes and Correlates of Homicide
15. Homicide and Criminal Careers: An Empirical Study on Serial Murderers
Gian Maria Campedelli and Maria R. D’Orsogna
16. Adverse Childhood Experiences and Homicide
Melissa S. Jones and John P. Hoffmann
17. A Descriptive Examination of Homicide and the Victim–Offender Overlap
H. Daniel Butler and Jennifer Beatty
18. Barriocide Reloaded: An Updated Analysis of the Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Gang Homicide in East Los Angeles
Matthew Valasik, Shannon Reid and Michael Barton
19. Immigration and Homicide: From Eastern Europe to the U.S.–Mexico Border
Raymond E. Barranco and Edward S. Shihadeh
20. Self-Control, Homicide Offending, and Homicide Victimization
Ryan C. Meldrum, Peter S. Lehmann, Carter Hay and Jacob Judd
21. Homicide and Psychosis
Olav Nielssen and Matthew Large
22. The Role of Psychopathy in Homicide among Juveniles: A Review of the Research
James Ray and Rachel Kahn
23. Sexual Homicide: Does Anything Matter Beyond Sexual Sadism?
Matt DeLisi, Eric Beauregard and Julien Chopin
PART 4 Homicide and the Criminal Justice System
24. Homicide and Criminal Justice Policy
Daniel P. Mears and Mark C. Stafford
25. Juvenile Homicide Offending: First-Time Offense or Escalation of Criminal Offending?
Michael T. Baglivio and Kevin T. Wolff
26. Policing Homicide in Urban and Rural Areas
Nathaniel L. Lawshe and Gregory M. Zimmerman
27. Homicide Clearances
Wendy C. Regoeczi, Shila Hawk and John P. Jarvis
28. Contemporary Challenges in Homicide Investigation
Fiona Brookman and Sophie Pike
29. The Flow of Homicide Cases through the Criminal Justice Funnel
Marieke Liem
30. The Processing of Homicide in American Courts
Daniela Oramas Mora and Jesenia Pizarro
31. Prison Homicide
Joshua Long
32. Condemned Homicide Offenders and Externalizing Psychopathology
David J. Peters, Taea Bonner and Matt DeLisi
PART 5 Professional Observations
33. Juvenile Homicide Offenders: Do They Become More Responsible over Time?
Kathleen M. Heide
34. Cold Case Homicide: Trends, Challenges, and Context
Rick Dierenfeldt, Joshua T. Shadwick and Mike Mathis
35. Homicide and Death Investigation
James Kruse
36. Selected Homicide Themes in Los Angeles County
Mark Ruelas
37. The Normal and the Pathological
Matt DeLisi
Biography
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 theory’s applications to crime.
Matt DeLisi, PhD, 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.
