The Routledge International Handbook of Juvenile Homicide

PART 1

Juvenile homicide today

 

1          Crime forecasting and the disappearing juvenile crime wave

James Alan Fox

2          The International handbook of juvenile homicide: The view from 30,000 feet

Kathleen M. Heide

3          Juvenile homicide offenders: A synopsis of the literature on characteristics and risk factors

Norair Khachatryan

 

PART II

Cross-national perspectives on juvenile homicide

 

4          Juvenile homicide in the United States

Kathleen M. Heide

 

5          Youth-involved/juvenile homicide cases in Canada

Adrienne M. F. Peters, Amanda R. Champion, and Raymond R. Corrado

 

6          Juvenile homicide in England and Wales

Rachel Condry, Caroline Miles, and Lucy Trafford

 

7          Juvenile homicide in the Netherlands

Pauline Aarten, Anne-Laura van Harmelen, and Marieke Liem

 

8          Juvenile homicide in Belgium

F. Jeane Gerard

 

9          Juvenile homicide in Australia

D. Jenny Cartwright

 

10        Cross-national trends and predictors of youth homicide victimization

Mateus R. Santos

 

PART III

Types of juvenile homicide offenders

 

11        School shootings and threat assessment

 

Dewey G. Cornell

 

12        Crime, conflict, and fighting for fun: Types of juvenile homicide offenders in Australia

Simone J. Deegan

 

13        Juvenile sexual homicide offenders: Clinical findings and considerations

Sanya Virani, Jason Andreas, Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan, and Wade Myers

 

14        Juvenile sexual homicide:  A review of offender, victim, and offense characteristics

Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan

 

PART IV

Age Considerations among juvenile homicide offenders  

 

15        Male juvenile homicide offenders:  Developmental and empirical differences among young boys, pre-teens, and teens who kill

Brian G. Sellers and Kathleen M. Heide       

 

16        Child perpetrators of homicide, suicide, and unintentional firearm fatalities in the United States

Sara J. Solnick and David Hemenway          

 

PART V

Gender differences among juvenile homicide offenders  

 

17        An empirically-derived typology of male juvenile homicide offenders in the United States

Cedric Michel, Kathleen Heide, Bryanna Fox, John Cochran, and Norair Khachatryan   

 

18        Statistical profiles of female juvenile homicide offenders: A latent class analysis

John Cochran, Kathleen Heide, Bryanna Fox, and Norair Khachatryan           

 

PART VI

Family homicides perpetrated by juvenile homicide offenders  

 

19        Understanding Parricide: Pathways to killing parents

Kathleen M. Heide

           

20        Juvenile involvement in double parricide and familicide in the U.S.

Averi R. Fegadel

           

PART VII

Causes, correlates, and theoretical explanations of juvenile homicide offending  

 

21        Why kids kill: Sociological Perspectives of juvenile homicide

Wesley G. Jennings and Nicholas M. Perez

 

22        Psychological Perspectives on juvenile homicide

Chae M. Jaynes and Deanna N. Devlin         

 

23        Biological and psychological effects of trauma

Eldra P. Solomon and Kathleen M. Heide    

 

24        Why do juveniles kill:  An ecological perspective on the developmental dynamics

James Garbarino        

 

25        Evolutionary perspectives on juvenile homicide offending

Madeleine K. Meehan and Todd K. Shackelford

           

PART VIII

Clinical observations by experienced juvenile homicide offender forensic evaluators   

 

26        Clinical impressions of juvenile homicide offenders

James Garbarino

           

27        “Nuts and bolts” of conducting forensic evaluations of juvenile homicide offenders

Kathleen M. Heide    

 

28        Juvenile homicide offenders: Is there evidence they mature over time?

Kathleen M. Heide    

 

PART IX

Treatment of juvenile homicide offenders

 

29        Innovative treatment for juvenile homicide: A dose-response analysis of recidivism outcomes

Darin R. Haerle

           

30        Effective treatment of severely aggressive youth with callous-unemotional traits

Michael F. Caldwell and Brendan M. Caldwell        

 

PART X

Competency, culpability, and sentencing considerations regarding juvenile homicide offenders

 

31        Adolescent development and justice; bridging science with practice – how should the legal system respond to juveniles charged with homicide?  A developmental perspective

Colleen Brown, Jordan Beardslee, and Elizabeth Cauffman

 

32        From “transient immaturity” to a permanent transformation: Jack’s story 

Frank DiCataldo        

 

33        Risk assessment for juvenile homicide offenders:  Best practices and a cautionary note

Jaymes Fairfax-Columbo, Sarah Fishel, Haleh Kanani, and David DeMatteo

           

34        Juveniles Sentenced to life in Australia – empirical findings

Simone J Deegan       

 

35        Growing up incarcerated: A prisoner's perspective on the juvenile homicide offender experience

John Hovey (post-script by Carol Welch)     

 

36        Juvenile homicide: Public perceptions and sentencing considerations

Kirk Heilbrun and Heidi Zapotocky  

 

37        Ethical considerations in sentencing juvenile homicide offenders to adult prison

 Brian G. Sellers         

 

PART XI

Release, recidivism, and Prediction of juvenile homicide offenders           

 

38        The Afterlife and discretional release of juvenile lifers

Simon Singer 

 

39        Juvenile homicide offenders: Synthesis of findings on recidivism

Norair Khachatryan   

 

40        Reentry Experiences and recidivism in a model program

Robert P. Blount III, Lillie A. Harris, and Shelsie Jeanty     

 

41        The implications of Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) exposure for juvenile violent offending and homicide: An extension of prospective prediction of juvenile homicide/attempted homicide

Michael T. Baglivio and Kevin T. Wolff      

 

42        Early Risk Factors for Juvenile and youthful homicide offenders in the Pittsburgh Youth Study

David P. Farrington, Lia Ahonen, and Rebecca M. Stallings

 

PART XII

Prevention of juvenile violence      

 

43        A character education perspective on preventing youth violence

Marvin W Berkowitz, John C. Gibbs, and Ann-Marie DiBiase

           

44        Leveling the playing field: A developmental psychologist’s perspective

Danielle Nesi and James Garbarino  

 

45        A biopsychosocial approach to interventions for violent offending

Olivia Choy and Farah Focquaert     

 

46        Juvenile offenders of homicide and prevention suggestions

Karissa R. Pelletier and Jesenia M. Pizarro  

 

PART XIII

Charting the course for the future 

 

47        Addressing Serious Juvenile Violence: Recommendations for Policy and Practice

Jodi Lane       

 

48        How to shift government policy from punishing to saving lives?

Audrey Monette and Irvin Waller     

 

Biography

Kathleen M. Heide is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of South Florida (USF). Professor Heide was elected as a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science in recognition of her contributions in Criminology, particularly in the areas of juvenile homicide and parricide. Dr. Heide is also a licensed mental health professional actively involved in evaluating adolescent homicide offenders and treating survivors of trauma, including police officers. She has served as a court-appointed expert in matters relating to homicide, violence, and family and children. Dr. Heide also has been retained by the state and the defense to evaluate defendants charged with murder in 17 states and Canada.

Professor Heide has authored or co-authored approximately 150 professional publications, including four monographs. Her book, Why Kids Kill Parents: Child Abuse and Adolescent Homicide, was the first scholarly book on the subject and is considered a seminal publication. Dr. Heide is also the author of two other books on homicide: Young Killers: The Challenge of Juvenile Homicide and Understanding Parricide: When Sons and Daughters Kill Parents. She is the co-author (with Linda Merz-Perez) of Animal Cruelty: Pathway to Violence Against People. Her research has also been featured by major news outlets around the world, and she has served as a consultant to the National Institute of Justice, National Institute of Health, many state agencies, and several law firms.

Dr. Heide has served on 20 community boards or councils and has held two gubernatorial appointments to the Florida Sentencing Commission. She has received many awards from USF for teaching and research excellence and has been recognized for her accomplishments by many community and professional organizations. Dr. Heide was elected to full membership in the American Psychological Association in recognition of her contributions to the field of psychology. Dr. Heide has been invited to lecture on her research findings in several countries. For example, she was invited by Queen Sofia of Spain to present her research on juvenile homicide at the International Meeting on the Biology and Sociology of Violence: Youth Violence (2004). Professor Heide gave the opening plenary address on parricide at a homicide conference sponsored by the Australian government and Griffith university (2014). Dr. Heide recently delivered the opening plenary on juvenile homicide for a psychology and law conference in Taiwan and will be speaking there on juvenile parricide at another conference in Fall 2023.

Kathleen holds a B.A. from Vassar College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She earned both her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University at Albany, State University of New York, School of Criminal Justice, where she received a Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award at commencement and was recognized as a distinguished alumna in 2007.

"In the International Handbook of Juvenile Homicide, Kathleen M. Heide has brought together leading scholars and researchers from different countries and across a variety of disciplines to write up-to-date and authoritative chapters on trends in juvenile homicide; subtypes, causes, and correlates of juvenile homicide; and prevention, treatment, and legal responses. It is difficult to think of a topic related to juvenile killing that is not covered in the volume’s 48 chapters. This monumental work will be the go-to source on juvenile homicide for many years to come." - Richard Rosenfeld, Ph.D., Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri – St. Louis

"Professor Heide's gathering of renowned experts on juvenile homicide is a monumental contribution to the world of juvenile justice, for judges, lawyers, therapists, and students: A definitive work that addresses the difficult question of why juveniles commit murder, and how to prevent it." - Judge Irene Sullivan, retired Florida juvenile and family law judge, author of Raised by the Courts

“Finally, a book on juvenile homicide that is truly comprehensive and current! A pioneer researcher whose prolific work on juvenile homicide continues today, Kathleen Heide assembled an impressive array of multidisciplinary authors of world renown. Tightly organized, cogent chapters are theory- driven and data-based original research reports with cutting-edge findings. Juvenile homicide is analyzed from multiple perspectives (epidemiological, ethnographic, developmental, psychobiological). Nomothetic research is complemented with ideographic descriptions and self-expressions of juvenile homicide offenders, providing enlightening insight into the perspectives of those who have experienced the challenges of prolonged custody while their youthful brains are still undergoing maturational changes. Many will eventually be released into a world dramatically transformed from the time of their arrest. The Rutledge International Handbook of Juvenile Homicide is an indispensable reference but also an essential read for policy makers, criminologists, penologists, criminal and juvenile attorneys, and mental health experts as well as practitioners who serve the criminogenic and mental health needs of juvenile homicide offenders.” Alan R. Felthous, M.D., Professor Emeritus, Forensic Psychiatry Division, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO