Social and Behavioral Science

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.

Adam Gelb, Director, Pew Center's Public Safety Performance Project, discusses the idea of reallocating prison expenses to probation and parole programs.

Al Blumstein, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Kiminori Nakamura, Doctoral Student

Interview at the 2009 NIJ Conference with, Michael Kenney, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science and Fellow International Center for the Study of Terrorism, Pennsylvania State University