Homicide in Germany

Homicide drop in Finland, 1996–2012

“…The decrease in male homicide offending rates was caused by a sharp drop in homicide offending of young and middle-aged men, while the offending rates of men over 50 years of age were stable or decreased only slightly. Hence, offending rates decreased in those male age groups with the highest offending rates (compare with Verkko, 1951;Kivivuori, 2002;Birkel & Dern, 2012). Among women, offending rate increase took place among 15-to 34-year-old women, while the offending rates of women 35 years of age and older remained stable.…”

“…This period is interesting from the point of view of the current trend because the developments since the mid-1990s can be seen as a return to the pre-1970s 'normalcy', at least when considering mere aggregated homicide rate levels. Information about the structural changes connected with the period of increasing homicide rates in different European countries has been available from Estonia, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain (Kivivuori, 2002;Nieuwbeerta & Leistra, 2007;Birkel & Dern, 2012;Medina, 2012;Preti & Macciò, 2012;Salla, Ceccato, & Ahven, 2012).…”

Exploration of Crime Scene Characteristics in Cyber-Related Homicides

“…However, stranger-perpetrated homicides in the United States have been reported to be one of the highest homicide rates among industrialized nations, with Harrell (2012) observing that more than 20% of homicides in the United States between 1993 and 2008 were perpetrated by strangers. Moreover, the percentages of stranger-perpetrated homicides in European Union (EU) countries have ranged from 10% to approximately 20%, based on data from several Northern European and Scandinavian countries (Liem, van Buuren, de Roy van Zuijdewijn, Schönberger, & Bakker, 2018), France (Mucchielli, 2012), Germany (Birkel & Dern, 2012), and England and Wales (Soothill & Francis, 2012).…”