Characteristics of homicide-suicide offenders: A systematic review

Rouchy, Emma; Germanaud, Emma; Garcia, Mathieu; Michel, Grégory

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“…In the Netherlands, such cases amount to 4 per cent of all homicides annually, and mostly take place within the family sphere (Liem et al 2009). Although some suicides following homicides may be triggered by a fear of judicial consequences (arrest, imprisonment), previous studies show that homicide-suicides are often premeditated (Rouchy et al 2020).…”

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From detection to sentencing: a homicide case flow analysis of the Dutch criminal justice system

Liem

Aarten

Vüllers

2021

Policing and Society

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Homicide engenders broad moral concerns in society, and its aftermath can be understood as a barometer for criminal justice policy. Of all homicides committed, however, only some lead to arrest, to prosecution and ultimately to conviction in court. So far, no study has assessed the entire flow of homicide cases through the criminal justice system based on a nationwide sample. This study seeks to fill this empirical void by describing the entire flow of homicide cases and assessing the size of outflow at each stage of the criminal justice funnel in the Netherlands for a 20-year period. Our analysis highlights two main findings: First, the vast majority of suspects first identified by the police are ultimately sentenced for a homicide. Second, even in a country with low homicide rates and high rule of law indices, selection takes place at all stages of the criminal justice funnel. Whilst outflow mostly centres around exceptional clearance and legal factors, future work should assess the extent to which extra-legal characteristics play a role in crimes that are being investigated as potential homicides.

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From detection to sentencing: a homicide case flow analysis of the Dutch criminal justice system

Liem

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2021

Policing and Society

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“…It seems that there are at least a few likely reasons for this. First, offenders who commit mass violence often kill themselves at the time of, or shortly after, their violent crimes, thus also becoming homicide‐suicide cases [16,18]. There is always substantial missing information concerning important psychological variables (i.e., motive, planning, emotional states) in such cases that may never be known.…”

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“…Research suggests that mass violence and homicide-suicide are often associated with an individual, usually male, simultaneously experiencing multiple significant stressors (cumulative strain), such as those pertaining to employment and/or financial issues, relationship and/or family instability, legal matters, and history of trauma [16][17][18]. Firearms are used in the vast majority of such cases, and there is usually a triggering factor [16,18]. Regarding mass public shootings, specifically, ideologically motivated shooters are associated with greater planning and, subsequently, greater lethality compared to disgruntled employees (least planning andfewest fatalities), school, and rampage (do not fit any previous category) shooters [15].…”

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Williams

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Superhomicide offenders: Nosology, empirical features, and linkages to sexual and multiple murder typologies

DeLisi

2024

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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The nosology for criminals who murder multiple victims is at once well‐established and controversial, perhaps because theorists have largely segregated such offenders from the broader criminal population. The current study introduces the superhomicide offender, an individual convicted of at least five murders, to locate multiple homicide offenders within the criminological and epidemiological science pertaining to the most pathological offenders, and statistically place them with other conceptualizations of severe offenders at the 95th percentile of the offending distribution. Relative to other capital murderers, superhomicide offenders have lengthier criminal history, greater conviction history, and coextensive psychopathology characterized by psychopathy, sexual sadism, homicidal ideation, cluster A and B personality disorders, and major depressive disorder. Superhomicide offenders are profoundly psychopathic with 20 of the 39 offenders reaching the clinical threshold of 30 or more on the PCL‐R, and 19 of the 39 are sexually sadistic. Regarding extant typologies of sexual and multiple homicide offenders, 15 are serial murderers, 17 are sexual homicide offenders, 17 are mass murderers, and 17 are spree murderers. Twenty‐four of the 39 superhomicide offenders (61.5%) met criteria for multiple typologies, suggesting the new prototype can help unify the study of those who perpetrate multicide and embed them within criminological and epidemiological models that specify pathological antisocial outcomes.

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Characteristics of homicide-suicide offenders: A systematic review

Cited by 43 publications

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From detection to sentencing: a homicide case flow analysis of the Dutch criminal justice system

From detection to sentencing: a homicide case flow analysis of the Dutch criminal justice system

Mass violence planned as ultimate leisure experience? Four diverse cases

Superhomicide offenders: Nosology, empirical features, and linkages to sexual and multiple murder typologies

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