1st Edition
The Routledge International Handbook of Homicide Investigation
The Routledge International Handbook of Homicide Investigation will be the first of its kind to bring together research and personal insights from detectives, practitioners, academics and experts internationally on various complexities that are involved in the investigation of homicides.
The handbook discusses the challenges faced by homicide detectives, especially since not every investigation will demand the same approach. The tools, techniques and expertise required also vary according to the type of homicide that is investigated. This handbook brings these issues and opportunities to the forefront while also illustrating the wider complexities and emotional impact of homicide investigations on detectives and those bereaved by homicide. The book is divided into four parts. Part I provides chapters that explore homicide investigation across the globe. Parts II and III offer an up-to-date insight into the ever-evolving tools and techniques that are used during a homicide investigation and explore how specific types of homicides are investigated. Part IV considers both those directly affected by the homicide and the role of indirect victims in the investigation, including the impact of homicide and its investigation. Chapters also consider some recent developments in homicide investigation that may shape its future as well as current issues that are facing homicide detectives.
Providing cutting-edge research on every step of the criminal homicide investigation process, this handbook is essential reading for scholars, students and practitioners interested in homicide investigation.
Introduction
Cheryl Allsop and Sophie Pike
PART I: Homicide Investigations Worldwide
1 Behind the (Crime) Scenes: Researching the History of Homicide Investigation in England and Wales
Sophie Pike
2 Homicide Investigations in Norway
Ivar Fahsing, Tor Kallmyr and Frode Lier
3 Homicide Investigations in Australia
Amber C. McKinley
4 Homicide Investigations in the United States
Richard M. Hough and Kimberly D. McCorkle
PART II: Homicide Investigations: In Practice
5 Homicide Detectives: Transformational Change and Challenges
Martin O’Neill, Stephen Tong and Stephen Clayman
6 Being a SIO
Mark O’Shea
7 Investigative Decision-Making in Homicide Investigations
Gareth Bevan
8 The Use of Digital Evidence in Homicide Investigations
Dana Wilson-Kovacs, Helen Jones and Fiona Brookman
9 The Commercialisation of Forensic Science and the Investigation of Homicide in England and Wales
Rhian Kinsella
10 Forensic Entomology in Death Investigations
Jacqueline Spicer
11 Social Network Analysis in Homicide Investigations
Maureen Taylor
12 The Role of the Media in Homicide Investigations
Liam Ralph
13 How Psychologists Can Help the Police in Homicide Cases
Mike Berry
14 Investigative Interviewing on Homicide Investigations
Jennifer Holmes
15 Eyewitness Memory
Rui Paulo
16 Behaviour Sequence Analysis in Homicide Investigations
David A. Keatley
17 Geographic Profiling in Murder Investigations
D. Kim Rossmo
PART III: Homicide Investigation in Different Contexts
18 Domestic Homicide Reviews and Investigating Domestic Homicide
Grace Boughton
19 ‘Honour’-Based Femicide
Aisha K. Gill
20 The Investigation of Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide
Victoria Roper
21 Missing, Murdered and Hidden
Helen Jones and Cheryl Allsop
22 Whodunit, Howdunit, Whydunit? How Detectives Think About and Investigate Complex ‘Hard to Solve’ Murders
Martin Innes and Fiona Brookman
PART IV: Homicide Investigations: Working With Survivors
23 Homicide Investigations and Survivors of Homicide
Cheryl Allsop and Sophie Pike
24 Secondary Victims of Homicide and Restorative Justice
Paul Gavin
25 The Emotional Impact of Homicide Investigation: A Neglected but Vital Issue
Janet Foster
26 Homicide Investigation and Miscarriages of Justice
Carole McCartney, Cheryl Allsop and Sophie Pike
Biography
Cheryl Allsop is Senior Lecturer at the University of South Wales. Cheryl obtained her ESRC-funded PhD, which focused on how the police seek to solve long-term unsolved murders and stranger rapes, from Cardi_ University.
Sophie Pike is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Bath Spa University. She obtained her doctorate from the University of South Wales, and her research explored the ways in which the police investigation of homicide in England and Wales has changed since the 1980s.
