Index

Homicide and Violent Crime

ISBN: 978-1-78714-876-5, eISBN: 978-1-78714-875-8

ISSN: 1521-6136

Publication date: 6 September 2018

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(2018), "Index", Deflem, M. (Ed.) Homicide and Violent Crime (Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance, Vol. 23), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 261-264. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1521-613620180000023015

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INDEX

abuse
, 11, 16, 19, 29, 40, 47–48, 50–51, 53–55, 99

activities, routine
, 97, 210, 213, 215

addiction
, 48, 50–51, 56–57

adolescent onset
, 49, 51–52

age-structure
, 210–213

alcohol
, 14, 53, 86, 130, 246

America
, 44, 183, 192–195, 249, 252

American Dream concept
, 179, 183–185, 188, 192

analysis, firearm
, 252–253

anomie theories, institutional
, 2, 179

anti-blackness
, 188, 190–191

antisocial behaviors
, 50, 85–87, 215

arm campus police
, 91–92

arrest clearances
, 125

belief system, unified
, 69–71, 73, 76

bias crime
, 101–102, 104–105, 109

bias crime offenders
, 105–106, 109

bias homicide
, 101, 103, 105, 113

bias violence
, 2, 101–110, 113

acts of
, 106

committing
, 104–105

fatal acts of
, 106, 110

relevance of
, 101, 103, 105, 107, 109, 111, 113

studying
, 101–102

understanding of
, 101–102, 113

Blacks
, 36, 38, 54, 71, 75–76, 111–112, 126, 128, 140–149, 152–153, 146, 160, 162, 168–169, 188, 190–191

Black segregation
, 152–153

campus police
, 82, 92, 94–96, 99

campus police forces, armed
, 91–92, 94

campus safety
, 2, 91, 93–95, 97, 99

campus safety and security
, 91, 94–95, 97

campus violence
, 2, 83–86, 96–97

caregivers
, 18, 127

Caribbean
, 242–243, 247–250, 252

Caribbean nations
, 244, 248–250, 252–253

child

abuse
, 11, 13–14, 16, 18, 48

and neglect
, 18

child homicides
, 9, 11–13, 15–18

majority of
, 16–17

nature of
, 132

victims of
, 12, 124

childhood onset offenders
, 49, 52

child murder
, 2, 8–11, 13–23

citizens, powerful
, 145–146

clearance rates
, 123, 125, 129, 226, 233, 250

declining
, 126

lower
, 126, 128–129, 131–132

clearing homicide cases
, 126, 129

coercive control
, 144–146

coercive strategies

of crime control
, 141

of policing
, 151

community

academic
, 85–87, 96

minority
, 126, 149–150, 153

urban
, 133, 242–244, 246, 253

relations
, 123, 126, 134, 166, 168

residents
, 132, 167, 169, 171–172

control strategies
, 2, 87–90

coercive crime
, 145

control violence
, 168

coordinated community response
, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39

countries

high homicide
, 200, 217

impoverished
, 229

individual
, 200, 202, 213

member
, 201

crime

combat
, 172–173

cross-national
, 210

female
, 45–46

homicide and violent
, 101

motivated
, 51

organized race
, 187

street
, 188

control
, 141–142, 145, 160, 162, 168, 172–173, 229

coercive
, 140–141, 144–145

control function
, 163–164, 170

data

official
, 110

official bias
, 104, 109

prevention
, 160, 162, 167

problem
, 172, 224

rates
, 46, 133, 154, 162, 165, 188, 213–214

relationship
, 211

scenes
, 130–131, 134, 251–253

scene tape
, 251, 253

trends
, 200–201, 210

international
, 209, 215

criminal behavior
, 44–48, 50–52, 105, 228

criminal homicide
, 243

criminal justice
, 28, 98, 140, 200, 231

criminal justice system
, 28, 44, 47, 90, 125, 165, 188, 224–225, 228–229, 231–233, 245, 253

criminological research
, 44

criminology
, 30, 44, 46

cross-national homicide

data
, 202–204

research
, 202, 209, 211

cross-national studies
, 209, 224, 226, 229

culture
, 9–10, 19–20, 178–182, 186, 188, 191

cycle, reporting
, 30, 33–35

delinquency
, 44, 48–49

deterrence
, 161–162, 164

discrimination
, 102, 141, 143–144, 189–190

DNA evidence
, 131, 251

domestic violence (DV)
, 2, 15–16, 29, 35, 51

DV, victims of
, 27–29, 31–32, 35

economic development
, 225, 229, 253

economic inequalities
, 54, 215, 224, 226, 236

family violence
, 14, 29, 34, 39

murders
, 36

programs
, 29

fatal acts
, 106, 110

felony family violence cases
, 39

female

criminality
, 44–47

homicide offenders
, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53

offenders
, 13–14, 47–49, 52–53

age of
, 14

financial management
, 92, 97–98

force, social
, 75, 148

forensic evidence
, 122, 128–131, 252–253

impact of
, 131

formal social control
, 224–225, 227–229

globalization
, 248, 250

hate crimes
, 101, 111

health, mental
, 45

Hispanics
, 13, 113, 140, 143–149, 153

homicide

categorization
, 245–246

clearance rates
, 126, 250–251

clearances
, 2, 126–129, 132

contemporary
, 187, 216

cross-national studies of
, 230–231

cross-national
, 203, 207, 210, 213

deaths
, 17, 202

definition of
, 203–204

domestic
, 35–36

female-perpetrated
, 54–55

figures
, 202–203

intentional
, 201, 203–204

international
, 201, 209, 211, 217

intimate partner
, 45, 127

investigations
, 126, 129–132, 251

investigators
, 125, 128, 252

nature of
, 123–126, 134

offenses
, 56–57

patterns
, 55

prevalence of
, 224, 230

reduction in
, 205, 207, 211

scenes
, 131, 134, 251

street
, 245

trends,

contemporary international
, 204

potential causes of international
, 200, 210

units
, 134

victimization
, 203, 246, 253

victims
, 13, 126, 243–244, 246

robbery-related
, 244, 246

white
, 187

homicide data
, 201–204, 209, 253

available
, 202, 209

missing
, 208–209

reliable source of cross-national
, 202–203

homicide rates
, 129, 202–203, 205–207, 209, 211–214, 216, 228–230, 249–250, 252

change in
, 201, 206–208, 210, 213

cross-national
, 213

high
, 129, 209, 226–228, 234, 242–243, 246

increasing
, 204, 207

international reductions in
, 207, 216

international
, 204–205

large
, 228, 230

low
, 205, 230, 234

official
, 230

risk
, 253

variations
, 224

identity, personal
, 102, 107–108, 113

incidents,

reported cybercrime
, 98

of violence
, 2, 52

income inequality
, 224–226, 229, 231

inequality
, 141, 225–226, 229–231, 243, 248, 252

infant mortality
, 225, 227

infants
, 8–9, 13, 15–17, 19

international homicide

data
, 201–203

trends
, 204–205, 210–211

interpersonal violence
, 212–213, 215, 217

investigating homicides
, 250–253

justice, procedural
, 165–166, 172

law enforcement officers
, 95, 166

lethal violence
, 35, 39, 103, 133, 187

levels, individual
, 164–165, 171–172, 190, 211, 215–216, 227

male victims
, 12, 32–33, 36–38, 54, 127, 246

adult
, 33

Manson family
, 2,

Manson murders
, 64–65

meta-analysis
, 209, 213, 224, 229

migration, international
, 210–211

minority citizens
, 141, 143, 145–146, 150–152, 154, 168

minority populations
, 144–145, 150

relatively large
, 140–141, 144–145

murder clearance rates
, 123–125, 129

murder victims
, 125, 243–244

National Academies
, 161–163

neoliberalism
, 184, 242, 247–250

neoliberal policies
, 248–249, 253

offenders, bias
, 103–105

ontological turn
, 179, 184–186, 188, 191–192

organizations, world health
, 2, 203, 224

police

agencies
, 143, 147, 149

authorities
, 145–146, 149

brutality
, 140, 142, 144, 146, 149, 251

departments
, 27, 93–94, 142, 146, 149–150, 153, 167

officers
, 98, 142, 145, 149, 151–152, 161, 164, 168–173, 233, 245, 251, 253

strategies
, 164, 170

subculture
, 149

violence
, 2, 143

incidence of
, 2, 144–145, 150, 154

use of
, 140, 145, 153

policies
, 56–57, 93, 98–99, 143, 146, 150, 160, 173, 248

domestic
, 200, 207, 217

economic
, 247–248, 253

policing
, 92–93, 95, 132, 142–143, 145–146, 149, 151, 160–161, 163–164, 170, 173

proactive
, 160–161, 163, 166–167

reactive
, 160–163

subculture of
, 150, 153

policing strategies
, 160–163, 167–168

policy recommendations
, 2, 166

poverty, measure of
, 226–227, 230

power, political
, 145, 149

power-threat hypothesis
, 145, 147–148

prevention of school violence
, 98–99

preventive strategies
, 87–89, 171, 173

proactive policing strategies
, 161–162

property crime
, 49, 52, 99, 200, 215

racial threat
, 140–141, 144, 152

relationship

abusive
, 29, 32, 40, 50–51

positive
, 145, 147–148, 172

risk factors
, 8, 11–12, 14, 17–18, 51

robbery rates
, 124

robbery-related homicides
, 127, 244–245

Services, Department of Health and Human
, 12, 14, 16

shelters

emergency
, 31–32, 34

genesis women’s
, 30, 32–33

social identities
, 105–108, 110

social identity theory
, 105–108

solving homicides
, 125, 127–129, 131, 133

state power
, 178–179, 183, 185–187

strategies, proactive
, 161–163

Supplementary Homicide Reports
, 124–125

survey, world homicide
, 224

Tate-LaBianca Murders
, 65, 75

terrorism
, 85–87, 99, 110

theories of crime
, 185

threat hypothesis
, 144, 146, 148, 154

threats

minority
, 141, 144–147, 152, 154

perceived
, 107–108, 110, 151

totemic principle
, 67–69, 72

totemism
, 66–68

Trinidad
, 242–244, 249

Trinidad and Tobago
, 242

victim/offender relationships
, 14, 127

victims

female
, 12, 28, 33, 36–37

involving child
, 125, 127, 133

ip homicide
, 37

lifelong
, 50

monthly number of
, 34

violence

activity
, 83, 85

acts of
, 83, 86, 88–89, 96, 103, 106, 113, 148

bias-motivated
, 102–103

crime rates
, 164, 187

criminality
, 146, 152

death
, 10

gang
, 242–243, 245, 253

gratuitous
, 144, 149–150

incidents
, 49, 242

individual-level
, 164, 171

levels
, 225

neighborhood
, 169, 173

offenders
, 89, 164–165

offenses
, 46, 50, 52–53, 56–57

physical
, 186

police on
, 165

police use of
, 140, 149, 154

preventing
, 88

prevention
, 87, 90, 98, 170

reducing
, 160, 170–171

relative
, 50

sexual
, 54, 84, 99

state’s monopoly on
, 160–161, 163, 165, 167–171, 173

victimizations
, 52–53, 163

Virginia Tech
, 82, 88

White social identity group
, 113

White women
, 47–48

women, life circumstances of
, 44

women offenders
, 47–48, 56–58

women’s pathways
, 47, 50–51, 57