Injury Patterns for Homicide Followed by Suicide by the Relationship Between Victims and Offenders

Reckdenwald, Amy; Simone, Shannon

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“…Moving forward, responses to homicide-suicide should be grounded in theory and rigorous empiricism, rather than in public fear and sensationalism. Unfortunately, much of the research on homicide-suicide is: atheoretical; qualitative; descriptive; limited to small samples; and conducted almost exclusively at the individual level, without regard for contextual effects (Eliason 2009; Flynn et al 2009; Liem, Postulart, and Nieuwbeerta 2009; Panczak et al 2013; Reckdenwald and Simone 2017). While descriptive statistics from small samples that do not account for the broader social context can reveal important patterns, they are not sufficient for revealing effects net of control variables or generalizing findings from a sample to a larger population.…”

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Examining the Racial Dynamic of the Victim-offender Dyad in Homicide-suicide: Does Intraracial Homicide Encourage Perpetrator Suicide?

Zimmerman

Fridel

Gerdes

2020

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

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Objectives: Compared to homicide-only, homicide-suicide is understudied in the criminological literature. This study investigates the victim-offender relationship—one of the most well-established correlates of homicide-suicide—from a new angle. In addition to examining the familiarity/closeness of the victim-offender relationship, this study investigates whether the racial composition (interracial versus intraracial) of the victim-offender dyad impacts the likelihood of committing suicide following homicide. Method: This study uses data on 26,858 homicide and homicide-suicide cases distributed across 3,178 places and 45 U.S. states from the National Violent Death Reporting System appended to information from the American Community Survey. Hierarchical logistic regression models examine the independent and joint contribution of: (1) the familiarity/closeness of the victim-offender relationship; and (2) the racial composition of the victim-offender dyad on homicide-suicide. Results: Killing familiar and same-race victims independently increase the odds of suicide following homicide; additionally, the odds of suicide following homicide are highest for offenders with both familiar and same-race victims. Conclusions: The findings suggest that homicide-suicide research should account for different aspects of the victim-offender relationship. Additionally, the importance of race/ethnicity extends to even the rarest of crimes.

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Examining the Racial Dynamic of the Victim-offender Dyad in Homicide-suicide: Does Intraracial Homicide Encourage Perpetrator Suicide?

Zimmerman

Fridel

Gerdes

2020

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

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“…Finally, it has been shown that in the case of perpetrators who previously knew their victims, there tends to be a greater number and seriousness of injuries [41], with the homicides tending to take place indoors and most often using bladed weapons or blunt objects [32,42]. In addition, they tend to be triggered by an argument [33,43]; similarly, the victims are usually male and between the ages of 15 and 24 [44].…”

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Homicide Profiles Based on Crime Scene and Victim Characteristics

Pecino-Latorre

Fuentes

Patró-Hernández

2019

IJERPH

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One of the current trends in homicide research includes developing works based on scientific study and empirical evidence, which offer conclusions that can be used in an operational manner during police investigations. The objective of this study was to identify homicide characteristics from behaviors carried out on the crime scene and victim characteristics associated with those of the perpetrators of these crimes in Spain. The sample consisted of 448 homicide cases from the database of the Homicide Revision Project led by the Office of Coordination and Studies of the Secretary of State and Security. After creating six classification tree models, it was found that the modus operandi of the aggressor and the victim characteristics may permit hypothesizing about the demographic characteristics of the perpetrator (gender, age, and country of origin), his/her criminal record, and the type of relationship with the victim. Furthermore, the importance of the study of victimology during a criminal investigation is highlighted, as it may indirectly offer information about the potential perpetrator. The findings of this study suggest that criminal profiling contributes notably to the decision-making process to establish more rigorous suspect prioritization, improve the management of human resources and materials, and increase the efficiency of criminal investigations.

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“…Third, homicide-suicide has no formal legal definition (because charges are not typically filed) and weak theoretical grounding on which few empirical tests are based (Liem, 2010;Riedel, 2010). As a result, much of the extant research on homicide followed by suicide is epidemiological in nature; has been focused on descriptions of isolated events rather than on scientific assessment of larger sampling frames; has examined whether homicide-suicide is primarily suicide driven, primarily homicide driven, or a different form of violence entirely; and has produced mixed results (Eliason, 2009;Flynn et al, 2009;Liem, Postulart, & Nieuwbeerta, 2009;McPhedran et al, 2015;Panczak et al, 2013;Reckdenwald & Simone, 2017).…”

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Putting homicide followed by suicide in context: Do macro‐environmental characteristics impact the odds of committing suicide after homicide?*

Fridel

Zimmerman

2018

Criminology

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Homicide followed by suicide remains an understudied phenomenon in the criminological literature. This is due, in part, to methodological and statistical limitations—much of the extant research includes small samples and has not kept pace with quantitative advances. Moreover, scholarship on homicide–suicide has been focused almost exclusively on individual risk factors, discounting contextual influences. In this study, we examine whether macro‐environmental characteristics affect the odds of suicide after a homicide. We use data on 24,373 homicide and homicide–suicide cases distributed across 3,019 cities and 48 U.S. states from the National Violent Death Reporting System to examine the direct effects of structural factors on the odds of suicide after a homicide; and whether structural characteristics condition the impact of the victim–offender relationship on the odds of homicide–suicide. Hierarchical logistic regression models indicate that macro‐level concentrated disadvantage decreases the odds of homicide–suicide. Furthermore, concentrated disadvantage attenuates the odds of suicide after the homicide of an intimate partner, child, family member, or friend, relative to the killing of a stranger. The findings reveal that researchers should account for the context in which homicide–suicide occurs; failure to do so may unintentionally discount a key correlate of homicide–suicide and artificially inflate the effects of the micro‐environment.

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Injury Patterns for Homicide Followed by Suicide by the Relationship Between Victims and Offenders

Cited by 19 publications

References 55 publications

Examining the Racial Dynamic of the Victim-offender Dyad in Homicide-suicide: Does Intraracial Homicide Encourage Perpetrator Suicide?

Examining the Racial Dynamic of the Victim-offender Dyad in Homicide-suicide: Does Intraracial Homicide Encourage Perpetrator Suicide?

Homicide Profiles Based on Crime Scene and Victim Characteristics

Putting homicide followed by suicide in context: Do macro‐environmental characteristics impact the odds of committing suicide after homicide?*

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