CHAPTER 1: Introducing You to Homicide
Introduction
Homicide: What Most People Think They Know
Organization of the Book
Historic and Contemporary
What This Book Is Not
Policy Implications
CHAPTER 2: Who′s Killing Whom and How Much
Introduction
What We Measure
How We Measure
Studying Homicide Situations
Data Challenges
CHAPTER 3: Murder by the Numbers
Introduction
Victims—Who Dies
Offenders—Categories and Demographics
Location, Location, Location
Weapons Used in Violence
Other Circumstances
Trends and Patterns
Homicide Internationally
CHAPTER 4: Why We Do It: Theories of Homicide
Introduction: Sociological and Criminological Perspectives
Individual Explanations
Social Structural
Life Course, Lifestyle, and Routine Activities Theory
CHAPTER 5: Confrontational Homicide
Introduction
Victim Precipitation
Honor Contests
Road Rage
Audience
Alcohol
Physiology
Girls, Women, and Confrontational Violence
Investigative Considerations
CHAPTER 6: Intimate Partner Homicide
Introduction and Definitions
Rates
Dynamics of Intimate Partner Homicide
Theories to Explain Intimate Partner Homicide
Lethality Assessment
Fatality Review Teams
Prosecution of Intimate Partner Homicide
CHAPTER 7: All in the Family
Introduction
Familicide
Parents and Children
Other Family Killings
CHAPTER 8: School Killings
Introduction—Perception and Prevalence
Mass Shootings and Attacks
The Killers
Motivations of Those Who Kill
Policy Responses
CHAPTER 9: Workplace Mass Killings
Introduction
Workplace Violence
Workplace Victims
The Workplace Killer
Assessing Violence Potential
Policy Implications
CHAPTER 10: Tool of Terror
Introduction
Definition and History
Acts of Terror
Who are Terrorists?
Hate Crimes and Killing
Role of the Media
Stopping Terrorists
CHAPTER 11: Serial Killing
Introduction
Myth and Mayhem
Typologies
Profiling Serial Killers
Female Serial Killers
Medical or Healthcare Serial Killers
Team Serial Killers
Catching Serial killers
CHAPTER 12: Cults and Gangs
Introduction
Cult Leaders and Followers
Assessing Impacts
Policy Implications
Gangs and Killing
CHAPTER 13: Solving Homicides
Introduction
First Officer on the Scene
Investigator Arrives
Documentation
Collection of Evidence
ME or No ME?
Prosecutor: Who Needs ‘Em?
Technology
Case Personnel
Working With the Media
CHAPTER 14: Murder in Court
Introduction
Stages in Homicide Cases
Building the Case and Charging Decisions
Evidentiary Issues
Defense Attorney Functions and Tactics
Ethical Issues
Plea-Bargaining
Sentencing
CHAPTER 15: Victims, Society, and the Future
Introduction
Victim Impact
Public Health Perspective
Criminal Justice System Response and Legislation
Societal Issues
Predicting Violence
Technology
References
Index
About the Authors
Dr. Richard Hough has taught criminal justice and criminology
courses in the college and university setting for twenty-five years
and he has taught investigative methods and other law enforcement
and corrections topics in the academy and in-service law
enforcement setting for thirty years. This is added to the author’s
extensive professional experience including investigating homicide.
Dr. Hough has held increasingly responsible positions in law
enforcement and has served as director of law enforcement and
corrections in sheriff’s offices, as well as superintendent of
detention centers for the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice.
Dr. Hough has served as both a law enforcement and corrections
academy director. He is currently a faculty member in the
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of
West Florida.
Dr. Richard Hough has conducted more than 100 training seminars,
conference presentations, and international briefings on criminal
justice issues and he is the primary instructor for contemporary
policing practices and gangs and hate groups at the regional law
enforcement academy in Pensacola, FL. Dr. Hough is a member of the
Homicide Research Working Group (HRWG), the Police Executive
Research Forum (PERF), the International Homicide Investigators
Association (IHIA), the International Association of Chiefs of
Police (IACP), the Southern Criminal Justice Association (SCJA) and
the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS). Dr. Hough has been
interviewed by local, regional and national news media and has
appeared on radio and television speaking on criminal justice
issues. He has published journal articles and book chapters. Dr.
Hough actively consults as an expert witness on police and
correctional practices and the use of force. Kimberly D. McCorkle
is a former state prosecutor and currently serves as Vice Provost
and Professor at the University of West Florida, where she has been
on the faculty since 2002. As a prosecutor, she worked as a
specialized domestic violence (DV) prosecutor and conducted over 50
misdemeanor and felony jury trials as lead counsel. In that
position, she also trained law enforcement officers on the legal
aspects of investigating domestic violence crime. Over the last 20
years, she has been interviewed numerous times by local and
national media as an expert on domestic violence crime.
Her primary research focus is intimate partner and family violence
and homicide. Dr. McCorkle has published numerous articles and has
presented and trained on DV and DV homicide. She is a member of the
Florida Bar, the Homicide Research Working Group (HRWG), the
Southern Criminal Justice Association (SCJA), and the Academy of
Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS).
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