Family homicide
Risk Factors for Death or Life-Threatening Injury for Abused Women in Chicago (From Violence Against Women and Family Violence: Developments in Research, Practice, and Policy, 2004, Bonnie Fisher, ed. -- See NCJ-199701)
Specialized Courtrooms: Does Speeding Up the Process Jeopardize the Quality of Justice?
Spousal SROK Revisited: A Comparison of Chicago and Houston Intimate Partner Homicide Ratios
Chicago Women's Health Risk Study, June 2000 (Part I and II)
Reducing Intimate Partner Homicides: The Effects of Federally-Funded Shelter Services Availability in California
Why Is the United States the Most Homicidal Nation in the Affluent World?
Ohio State University Since World War II, the homicide rate in the U.S. has been three to ten times higher than in Canada, Western Europe, and Japan. This, however, has not always been the case. What caused the dramatic change? Dr. Roth discussed how and why rates of different kinds of homicide have varied across time and space over the past 450 years, including an examination of the murder of children by parents or caregivers, intimate partner violence, and homicides among unrelated adults.
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Men Who Murder Their Families: What the Research Tells Us
Don't Jump the Shark: Understanding Deterrence and Legitimacy in the Architecture of Law Enforcement
Deterrence theory dominates the American understanding of how to regulate criminal behavior but social psychologists' research shows that people comply for reasons that have nothing to do with fear of punishment; they have to do with values, fair procedures and how people connect with one another. Professor Meares discussed the relevance of social psychologists' emerging theory to legal theory and practice and how deterrence and emerging social psychology theories intertwine.
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Homicide in the United States
The 2009 NIJ Conference kicked off with a blue-ribbon panel of leaders with expertise in urban issues as they relate to homicide. These experts will discuss promising approaches that have resulted in reduced violence and community empowerment.
Men Who Murder Their Families: What the Research Tells Us - NIJ Research for the Real World Seminar
Just Wrong: The Aftermath of Wrongful Convictions
Men Who Murder Their Families: What the Research Tells Us
FY2010 Solving Cold Cases with DNA
NIJ FY10 SOLVING COLD CASES WITH DNA - STATE OF LOUISIANA
Men Who Murder Their Families: What the Research Tells Us
NIJ hosts a forum to discuss the problem and the warning signs that foreshadow these events.
Men Who Murder Their Families: What the Research Tells Us
Experts discuss cases of domestic violence that escalate to homicide followed by suicide. Although the economy and unemployment are risk factors, prior domestic violence is by far the number one risk factor. The men usually display possessive, obsessive and jealous behavior, and they typically use guns to threaten and terrorize before they use them to kill.
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