Routledge Handbook of Homicide 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.