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Exploring Police-Community Relations Through Homicide.
Homicide, as one of the most serious violent crimes, deeply affects communities worldwide. This thesis investigates how police-community relations influence the homicide clearance rate and cold case homicide investigations. Using a mixed-methods approach, it draws on two studies: in-depth …
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Teenage serial homicide offenders: a typology.
Although serial homicide literature covers a variety of serial homicide offender classifications, to date, there has been a limited amount of research conducted on teenage serial homicide. Only two studies have attempted to explain teenage serial homicide, and no study has yet to create a typology …
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Homicide, Capital Punishment, and Gun Ownership: An Aggregate Analysis of u.s. Homicide Trends From 1947 to 1976
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Differences Between Male Perpetrators of Child Homicide
… and although the role of parents in child homicide has been studied, minimal research has focused on the role of the male paramour, or the child's mother's boyfriend, as the perpetrator of child homicides. This study aimed to examine the differences between male paramours and biological …
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CRIMINAL HOMICIDE IN NORTH CAROLINA, 1975-1977
… of this dissertation was patterns of criminal homicide in North Carolina between 1975 and 1977. Using Uniform Crime Report data between 1933 and 1979, North Carolina was compared to non-Southern and national time series trends. North Carolina's criminal homicide rate was shown to have decreased …
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Criminal Homicide in Warren County Kentucky: 1970-1971
… to violent aggression in the form of criminal homicide have often been the object of great public concern. Of the many actions punishable by criminal law, the taking of a human life by another human being most often entails a severe sanction, especially when it has been done deliberately and …
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Gender Differences In Characteristics Of Intimate Partner Homicide Offenders
… whether or not male and female intimate partner homicide offenders differ in a variety of characteristics using data from the Chicago Women's Health Risk Study, 1995-1998. Frequencies of male and female intimate partner homicide offender's risk factors were compared to look at how they differ. …
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The relationship between proximity to homicide and birth outcomes
… the effect of acute in utero exposure to homicides on a range of birth outcomes by testing theories of stress response and critical periods of fetal development. Specifically, this study examines the effect of in utero exposure to homicide on the birth outcomes of infants whose mothers …
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Inequality and the Homicide Rate in New York City
… relationship between income inequality and the homicide rate in 59 geographic areas in New York City known as Community District Tabulation Areas (CDTAs). The premise for this paper is that community members in each CDTA share similar social characteristics and therefore these areas provide a …
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Immigrant Perpetrators of Domestic Homicide: Unique Risks and Service Needs
… and Canadian-born perpetrators of domestic homicide using a sample of 186 cases of domestic homicide that occurred from 2002-2016 in Ontario; 93 perpetrators that were Canadian-born and 93 immigrant perpetrators. Results revealed sociodemographic differences between groups, such as immigrant …
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Exploring process and outcomes of a therapeutic homicide bereavement service
… growing evidence investigating the aftermath of homicide on those families bereaved. The literature suggests a potentially devastating emotional and psychological impact on family members and loved ones. Despite this, the research focused on developing and empirically evaluating service provision …
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Weapons in the City: Weapon Use in Chicago Homicide Cases
This study used data from the homicides in Chicago 1965-1995 dataset (N=9,340) to examine the relationship between the use of certain types of weapons in criminal homicides by gender, race, age, victim-offender relationship, motive, location, and changes over time. Differential association and …
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An Etiology of Juvenile Homicide in Dallas, Texas: 1988-1997
… research analyzed all juveniles involved in a homicide, both victims and offenders, in the city of Dallas, Texas from the years 1988 through 1997. This study addressed several research questions including the identification of risk factors common to both victims and offenders. Data for this …
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Homicide Clearance in England and Wales: Understanding the National Decline
… research is to critically explore the declining homicide clearance rate across England and Wales since 2011, and to identify what factors have contributed to this downturn. Homicide clearance is often used as a barometer of police effectiveness and a sustained decline in clearance can pose …
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Foreign object insertion in sexual homicide cases : an exploratory study
Foreign object insertion into the vagina of a murder victim is a rare occurrence. When it is encountered it is often seen as an indicator of a sexual murder, or regarded for signature analysis purposes. Due to its rare occurrence it is often only documented in literature in case-study form. In this …
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Voces de Las Madres: Traumatic bereavement after gang-related homicide
… bereavement following Latino gang-related homicide in the Southwestern U.S. A hermeneutic approach explicated bereavement experiences of two mothers, one Mexican American and one Pascau Yaqui/Mexican, whose sons were killed in the same gang-related event. Responses to gang-related deaths …
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Factors associated with intimate partner homicide in a West Australian context
… ofDV (ABS 2017) in their life. The Australian homicide rate is about 250 deaths per year, of which 52% are domestic related (Virueda & Payne 2010). Domestic homicides include Intimate Partner Homicide (IPH), where the victim and offender shared, or formerly shared an intimate relationship (for …
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Elite Deviance, Organized Crime, and Homicide: A Cross-National Quantitative Analysis
… To test the research hypotheses, this study uses homicide rates, corruption and organized crime measures, and indicators of national culture from 114 nations. Findings suggest that empirical linkages exist between elite deviance, organized crime and conventional deviance at the cross-national …
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Gender Inequality and Levels of Female Homicide in Cities: Examining the Influence of Race, Poverty Context, and Family Structure for Levels of Female Homicide Victimization and Offending
… States, Black women are at an increased risk of homicide victimization and offending when compared to White women. What accounts for these differences in homicide involvement for Black and White females? Spanning the last thirty years, feminist theory has called attention to the importance of …
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THE LIVES OF CRIMINALLY VIOLENT WOMEN (VOLUMES I AND II) (STRESS, HOMICIDE)
… autobiographical accounts of convicted female homicide offenders, this work defines the life experiences behind their violence. Seventy-six women, representing several age and racial groups, were separately interviewed at the North Carolina Correctional Center for Women. The life stories these …
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