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Foreword.(recent statistics showing decline in crime rates in the United States )
January 1, 2000... Crime and violence continue to be a major challenge facing the nation. Encouragingly, recent statistics show marked declines in crime in the United States (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1999). However, as recent as just a few years ago,...

Preface.(homicide, study and research)
January 1, 2000... As with its predecessors, the eighth annual workshop of the Homicide Research Working Group was sponsored by a group interested in homicide research. This year's participants were equally interested in learning about, and taking advantage of,...

A capture-recapture approach to estimation of hidden historial killings.(Chapter one: methodology of historical studies)
January 1, 2000... ABSTRACT Any scholar attempting to trace historic trends in homicide must grapple with the issue of missing data, some of which are yet to be uncovered, but others of which have disappeared forever. This paper shows the utility of...

Estimating the accuracy of historic homicide rates: New York City and Los Angeles (1).(Chapter one: methodology of historical studies)
January 1, 2000... ABSTRACT By using capture-recapture sampling, the accuracy of historical homicide counts in 19th century New York City and early 20th century Los Angeles County can be established. In both cases, the original counts missed some homicide...

Homicides in Savannah (1896-1903): data collection.(Chapter one: methodology of historical studies)
January 1, 2000... ABSTRACT This paper describes the collection of homicide data in Savannah for an 8-year period, 1896 to 1903. Three sources of information were used to collect this data: health officer's reports, the Savannah Morning News, and death...

Getting away with murder?: Homicide and the coroners in nineteenth-century London.(Chapter one: methodology of historical studies)
January 1, 2000... ABSTRACT Using the records of Coroners' Inquests from London, this paper will argue that there is suggestive evidence that the English, despite their pride in their low homicide rate and their feeling that few homicides went unprosecuted,...

When homicide data bases do not answer the questions: field strategies for locating and interviewing proxies.(Chapter two: homicides against women)
January 1, 2000... ABSTRACT As a means of better understanding homicide incidents, methods for identifying, locating, and interviewing confidants of homicide victims are still in their infancy. This paper discusses a set of strategies that worked in studies...

Criminal and restraining order histories of intimate partner-related homicide offenders in Massachusetts, 1991-1995.(Chapter two: homicides against women)
January 1, 2000... ABSTRACT Few studies have offered a detailed analysis of the criminal histories of intimate partner homicide perpetrators. A study was undertaken using multiple data sources to compile a comprehensive database of homicides related to...

Legal reactions to intimate partner homicide: a preliminary look at the role of gender and intimacy.(Chapter two: homicides against women)
January 1, 2000... ABSTRACT Research has documented the importance of the relationship between an offender and his/her victim in examining the homicide event. This paper builds on this work by exploring how criminal justice outcomes in these cases may vary...

Reproductive age women are over-represented among victims of wife-killing.(Chapter two: homicides against women)
January 1, 2000... ABSTRACT Younger women, relative to older women, incur elevated risk of uxoricide. Some evolutionary theorists attribute this pattern to men's evolved sexual proprietariness. Other evolutionary theorists propose an evolved homicide module...

Prior involvement with drugs, illegal activities, groups, and guns among a sample of young homicide offenders (1).(Chapter three: homicide perpetrators and victims)
January 1, 2000... ABSTRACT The number of homicides involving young offenders remains a concern. While research about the prior experiences of young homicide offenders with drugs, illegal activities, groups, and guns has been conducted, that research does...

The nature of expressiveness and instrumentality in homicide and its implications for offender profiling.(Chapter three: homicide perpetrators and victims)
January 1, 2000... ABSTRACT Most of the longitudinal literature on aggression shows that there are thematic consistencies and patterns between earlier and later life characteristics. There have also been some early indications that these characteristics can...

Victim and perpetrator characteristics for firearm-related homicides of youth during 1991-1997 (1).(Chapter three: homicide perpetrators and victims)(reports of firearm-related homicide victims under age 25 )
January 1, 2000... ABSTRACT Characteristics of all 363 firearm-related homicide victims under age 25 and of the suspects are described for Milwaukee County from 1991-1997. Data were from one medical examiner, 19 law enforcement agencies, and the State Crime...

The homicide and drug connection (1).(Chapter three: homicide perpetrators and victims)
January 1, 2000... ABSTRACT Homicide is not a criminal act that is common or committed by rational, sane people. But circumstances can arise whereby homicide becomes an all too common outcome. Typically, an act of homicide requires the use of a lethal...

State homicide victimization rates: do regression results differ by sex or race?(Chapter three: homicide perpetrators and victims)(comparing regression results for homicide victimization)
January 1, 2000... ABSTRACT Factors such as race and sex that could affect homicide victimization are examined. The study is conducted with both state and national data, disaggregated by race and sex. The analyses use time-series procedures with independent...

Fabricated illness and homicide of children: solving complex medical problems with the help of a computerized database system.(Chapter three: homicide perpetrators and victims)
January 1, 2000... ABSTRACT Homicide investigations occasionally involve massive amounts of medical data. A computerized database system that could hold, organize, sort, and report on large amounts of complex medical data was not available, so one was...

Using federal firearms licenses (FFL) data as an indirect measurement of gun availability.(Chapter four: gun-related research and research in progress)
January 1, 2000... ABSTRACT Unraveling the linkages between gun availability and violent deaths from homicide, suicide, and accidents is a major area of research in the social science and public health fields. Although the number of empirical studies...

Matching homicide reports and death records in California (research in progress).(Chapter four: gun-related research and research in progress)
January 1, 2000... ABSTRACT The California Department of Health Services (DHS), Epidemiology and Prevention for Injury Control (EPIC) Branch, matched and linked homicide records from the Department of Justice (DOJ) with death records from DHS for 1990...

Homicide gun characteristics before and after the 1994 crime bill.(Chapter four: gun-related research and research in progress)
January 1, 2000... ABSTRACT The Violent Crime and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 banned designated semi-automatic assault weapons and large-capacity magazines. To analyze the effectiveness of these provisions, we looked at changes in Milwaukee County in the...

School shootings in the United States: a typology of lethal and nonlethal injury (research in progresss).(Chapter four: gun-related research and research in progress)
January 1, 2000... ABSTRACT Worldwide attention has focused on school shootings in the United States during the last 2 years. This paper examined school shootings that occurred during 8 academic years, 1990/91 through 1997/98. The authors propose a typology...

Firearm homicide-suicide events in Southeastern Wisconsin, 1991-1997.(Chapter five: multiple murder)
January 1, 2000... ABSTRACT The public health model for injury prevention is utilized to comprehensively examine firearm homicide-suicide events. Records from multiple data sources were linked to better describe homicidesuicide events that occurred in 8...

Parricidal familicide.(Chapter five: multiple murder)
January 1, 2000... ABSTRACT Familicide accounts for but a fraction of the national murder rate. Perhaps this explains why it is the least explored, and consequently, least understood type of domestic homicide. Research in this area is limited to the...

Offense, offender, and victim characteristics of public mass murder incidents in the United States, 1975-1999.(Chapter five: multiple murder)
January 1, 2000... ABSTRACT Mass murder has attracted considerable attention over the past decade largely due to several high profile incidents. This paper explores the context of mass murder occurring in both public and private settings in the United States...

Murder-for-hire: an exploratory study of participant relationships.(Chapter five: multiple murder)
January 1, 2000... ABSTRACT Murder-for-hire events involve interpersonal relationships that are more complicated than those existing in typical one-on-one violent events. This paper presents findings that explore 2 features of relationships between...

Stalking.(Chapter six: summaries Of Panels Without Papers)
January 1, 2000... Pat Tjaden: Problems in defining stalking and what constitutes stalking have caused marked variation in laws from state to state. The National Institute of Justice mandated the development of a model anti-stalking code for states. The Violence...

Homicide, homicide research, and the news media: Littleton and beyond.(Chapter six: summaries Of Panels Without Papers)
January 1, 2000... Ted Gest: We're here to discuss why the media covers particular homicides, and how we follow homicide trends. We cover unusual cases, especially unusual cases in the middle class--like the Polly Klaas case. Shootings in middle-class communities...

Profiling: the use of behavioral assessments in the analysis of violent crimes.(Chapter six: summaries Of Panels Without Papers)
January 1, 2000... Mark Safarik: Profiling is a serious evaluation of a violent crime. The types of cases most frequently profiled are homicide, sexual assaults, arson and bombing, kidnapping, and child abductions. Profiling brings some focus to a case for law...

Agenda for 8th Annual Symposium of the Homicide Research Working Group FBI Academy, Quantico, Virginia June 27-30, 1999.(Appendices)(Federal Bureau of Investigation )(Calendar)
January 1, 2000... Sunday, June 27: 5:30-7:15: Reception (cash bar) and dinner 7: 15-9 p.m.: Opening session: Introductory remarks by Chris Rasche, Convener, and John Jarvis, Local Arrangements Chair (moderator, Candice Skrapec) Panel on Stalking (Organizer:...

Participants in the symposium.(Appendices)
January 1, 2000... Candice Batton Dept. of Criminal Justice University of Nebraska 540 N. 16th St., 1100 NRC Lincoln, NE 68588 James A. Black Dept. of Sociology University of Tennessee Knoxville 901 McClung Tower ...