Table of contents - Special Issue: Recent developments in homicide research
Guest Editors: Dr Maria Ioannou and Dr Laura Hammond
The changing face of homicide research: the shift in empirical focus and emerging research trends
Maria Ioannou, Laura HammondHomicidal behaviour is influenced by a complex interaction of behavioural, situational and environmental factors that raise many challenging psychological questions. A large and…
Age effects on juvenile homicide perpetration
Laura Hammond, Maria Ioannou– In order to address a notable gap in the research literature, the purpose of this paper is to examine age-related differences in juvenile homicide perpetration.
Homicide-suicide offences: description, classification and short case studies
Joakim Sturup, Shilan CamanAlthough homicide-suicide (H-S) offences are rare, they have remarkably tragic consequences. The purposes of this paper are to: examine the background characteristics of H-S…
A model for differentiating school shooters characteristics
Maria Ioannou, Laura Hammond, Olivia SimpsonThe purpose of this paper is to explore the potential for developing a model for differentiating school shooters based on their characteristics (or risk factors) before the attack…
Child homicide: generating victim and suspect risk profiles
Jason Roach, Robin BryantIn England and Wales, on average one child every week is a victim of homicide. The purpose of this paper is to explore whether different victim-risk profiles and suspect variables…
Can hard-to-solve one-off homicides be distinguished from serial homicides? Differences in offence behaviours and victim characteristics
Tom Pakkanen, Angelo Zappalà, Dario Bosco, Andrea Berti, Pekka SanttilaThe purpose of this paper is to explore the differences (if any) between serial and hard-to-solve one-off homicides, and to determine if it is possible to distinguish the two…
ISSN:
2009-3829e-ISSN:
2049-9388ISSN-L:
2009-3829Online date, start – end:
2011Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Dr Dominic Willmott