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Structural Factors and Black Interracial Homicide: A New Examination of the Causal Process

Journal

Criminology

Date Published

August 2004

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Potential Postmortem Microbial Biomarkers of Infant and Younger Children Death Investigation

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

December 2024

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Who's Right: Different Outcomes When Police and Scientists View the Same Set of Homicide Events, New York City, 1988 (From Drugs and Violence: Cause, Correlates, and Consequences, P 239-264, 1990, Mario De La Rosa, Elizabeth Y Lambert, Bernard Gropper, eds. -- See NCJ-128781)

Date Published

1990

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

The Impact of State Firearm Laws on Homicide Rates in Suburban and Rural Areas Compared to Large Cities in the United States, 1991-2016

Journal

Journal of Rural Health

Date Published

2019

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Legislation/Policy Analysis

Understanding the Pathology of Homicidal Pediatric Blunt Neurotrauma through Correlation of Advanced Magnetic Resonance Images with Histopathology

Date Published

2023

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Lull Before the Storm: Adult Children Who Kill Their Parents

Journal

The Forensic Examiner

Date Published

2008

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Instructional Material

NIJ-Funded Research on Firearms Violence in Urban Cities Advancing Scientific Evidence to Inform Practice

December 2021

In this full thematic panel, renowned experts will present a series of papers summarizing the newest findings of NIJ-funded research projects on criminal offenses with firearms in urban areas. Researchers used various criminological and other theories, including routine activity theory, socio-ecological and socio-environmental perspectives, and advanced mixed-study methods, including surveys and spatio-temporal designs, to produce scientific evidence to inform practice.

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Family, Intimacy, and Homicide: A Macro-Social Approach

Journal

Violence and Victims

Date Published

1990

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Family Structure as a Source of Female and Male Homicide in the United States

Journal

Homicide Studies

Date Published

November 2006

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

What We Know About Social Structure and Homicide: A Review of the Theoretical and Empirical Literature

Journal

Violence and Victims

Date Published

April 2002

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

The Unpredictability of Murder: Juvenile Homicide in the Pathways to Desistance Study

Journal

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice

Date Published

January 2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Determinants of Chicago Neighborhood Homicide Trajectories: 1965-1995

Journal

Homicide Studies

Date Published

August 2010

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Phenomenon of Palestinian Suicide Terrorism

Journal

Journal of National Defense Studies

Date Published

May 2008

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Issue Overview

Spatial Configuration of Places Related to Homicide Events in Washington, DC, 1990-2002

Date Published

July 2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Risk of Death Among Serious Young Offenders

Journal

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

Date Published

1997

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Relationship of Drugs, Drug Trafficking, and Drug Traffickers to Homicide

Journal

Journal of Crime & Justice

Date Published

1992

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Effects of State and Local Domestic Violence Policy on Intimate Partner Homicide (From Violence Against Women and Family Violence: Developments in Research, Practice, and Policy, 2004, Bonnie Fisher, ed. -- See NCJ-199701)

Date Published

2004

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Legislation/Policy Analysis, Research (Applied/Empirical)

Crack and Homicide in New York City: A Case Study in the Epidemiology of Violence (From Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice, P 113-130, 1997, Craig Reinarman and Harry G Levine, eds. - See NCJ-170648)

Date Published

1997

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Reducing Intimate Partner Homicides: The Effects of Federally-Funded Shelter Services Availability in California

Journal

Journal of Criminal Justice

Date Published

July 2010

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Poverty, Subculture of Violence, and Type of Homicide

Journal

Social Forces

Date Published

1989

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Men Who Murder Their Families: What the Research Tells Us - NIJ Research for the Real World Seminar

Date Published

June 2009

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Presentation

Assessing and Responding to the Recent Homicide Rise in the United States

Date Published

November 2017

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Issue Overview

Documenting and Explaining the 2015 Homicide Rise - Research Directions White Paper

Date Published

June 2016

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Guns and Youth Violence: An Examination of Crime Guns in One City

Date Published

1999

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Why Is the United States the Most Homicidal Nation in the Affluent World?

Date Published

December 2013

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Issue Overview