Aspects Of Homicide Research Articles

Homicide in Relation to Mental Illness: Stigma Versus Reality.

This narrative review examines different aspects of homicide among mentally ill individuals to compare the rates of homicide by offenders with and without mental illness and investigate the stigma of mental illness and its consequences. It also evaluates the motives of mentally ill perpetrators and their characteristics and explores weapons of choice in homicides related to different mental disorders. Studies confirmed higher homicide rates among specific categories of mentally ill individuals who experienced maltreatment, unemployment, abuse in childhood, and substance abuse resulting from stigma and discrimination. The motives were mainly revenge, argument, financial gain, sexuality, sadism, and filicide, with revenge being the top motive. Offenders were found to have close relationships with their victims in most cases. Sharp instruments were the most commonly used weapons. Our review confirms the lack of evidence linking mental illness independently with homicide, both globally and in Arab countries, and highlights the impact of discrimination toward mentally ill individuals. This discrimination and stigma lead to delayed care-seeking and self-destructive behavior, which is linked to higher homicide rates among persons with and without mental illness.

Homicide in Europe

Our aim with this Special Issue is to begin to fill an important empirical and academic gap in European criminological research: Homicide research in Europe. Relative to the United States and several commonwealth countries, Europe does not have a long tradition of studying the trends, patterns and explanations of homicide. Differences in legal definitions of and data sources on homicide have hampered cross-national comparisons. Further, population-level studies of homicide have long been at the periphery of criminological research, and this is especially true of European criminological scholarship. In light of these challenges, a small number of important recent initiatives have begun to systematically address homicide and homicide research in Europe. First, the construction of the European Homicide Monitor (EHM) is enabling comparisons and analyses among European countries. So far, three countries constitute the basis of the database: Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden (Ganpat et al., 2011; Liem et al., 2013). Other European countries are now in the process of joining this exciting initiative, filling a long-existing lacuna. A homicide measurement project such as this is fundamental for further research that will provide evidence-based knowledge on topics such as the social factors that foster lethal violence, effective violence prevention, and setting rational punishment, sentencing policy and treatment of offenders. Second, the publication of our Handbook of European Homicide Research: Patterns, Explanations, and Country Studies (Liem and Pridemore, 2011) provided the first large-scale systematic collection of information on homicide research in Europe and serves as a foundation for research on the topic moving forward. Third, the increased activity of the European Homicide Research Group reveals an additional indication of the growing interest in this field. We hope this Special Issue of the European Journal of Criminology represents yet another cornerstone to the growing field of European homicide research, and we thank the Journal’s editor, Paul Knepper, and others at the European Journal of Criminology for their support. For this Special Issue, we sought to gather work concerned with various aspects of homicide and other serious violence to highlight these recent developments and the diversity of this research area. The articles here range from theory-based contributions, to empirical work making use of macro-level or national data, to data related to specific types of homicide. 540077 EUC0010.1177/1477370814540077European Journal of CriminologyEditorial research-article2014

Urban Homicide in the United States, 1980-2010

Using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) mortality and census data with Supplementary Homicide Reports, we compare 25- and 30-year homicide trends for four age-race-sex categories in 172 U.S. cities. The comparisons indicate that one of the most salient aspects of homicide in the United States from 1980 to 2010 was the disproportionate involvement of young Black men as homicide victims and offenders. The persistence of these rates before, during, and after a sharp rise followed by a dramatic drop in the overall rates suggests the need for a focus on specific explanations for this aspect of urban homicide.

Maxillofacial Radiology in Forensic Science

Protection of spot of occurrence is very important for the investigation purpose. In a suspicious death case requires the greatest efforts on the part of forensic expert who visits the crime scene. It is generally best to suspect the worst, a homicide. In an interesting case study, it was reported that a burnt dead body of a lady was laid inside her house when the doors of the room were bolted from inner side and windows were found opened. Some clay-tiles had been removed from the clay-tiled roof and it was alleged that her husband put her to fire and ran away from the roof way. Careful examination of spot revealed that the possibility of creating hole in the clay-tiled roof after incident of fire, from the outside not from the inside, which lead the direction of investigation in the other direction. In these types of cases the forensic expert must be thoroughly familiar with all aspects of homicide, suicide and accident investigation.

Psychiatric aspects of homicide

This paper evaluates the past year's contribution to the literature regarding homicide, with special consideration given to the rate of mental disorder in perpetrators and the direction of future research.

Psychiatric aspects of homicide

Psychiatric aspects of homicide

Psychiatric aspects of homicide.

Psychiatric aspects of homicide.

Psychiatric aspects of homicide.

Homicide is frequently associated with mental illness and suicide. The present study is an investigation of all known homicide incidents in Iceland during the past 80 years (1900-1979). There were 45 homicide incidents, involving 52 victims and 47 offenders. One-third of the perpetrators were either psychotic, mentally subnormal, or committed suicide. A further one-third were diagnosed as personality disordered, alcoholic, drug dependent or neurotic. A substantial proportion of the offenders suffered from fairly marked physical disabilities, and the mentally ill were significantly more frequently afflicted by such defects. Over 60% of the offenders and 50% of the victims were under the influence of alcohol at the material time. The findings are generally consistent with those of previous psychiatric studies of homicide.