NIBRS and SHR: A Comparison of Two National Homicide Databases With Respect to Parricide

Fegadel, Averi R.; Heide, Kathleen M.

doi:10.1080/15564886.2016.1246392

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“…In addition, to the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to use a data‐driven approach to examine Heide's widely used typology of parricide offenders. Most offenders in our sample were male, White, unmarried, and unemployed, a finding that is consistent with previous research (Baxter et al, 2001; Bourget et al, 2007; Fegadel & Heide, 2018). Similarly to previous findings, most offenders used blunt or sharp instrument as a method of homicide (Holt, 2017).…”

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“…Most offenders in our sample were male, White, unmarried, and unemployed, a finding that is consistent with previous research (Baxter et al, 2001;Bourget et al, 2007;Fegadel & Heide, 2018). Similarly to previous findings, most offenders used blunt or sharp instrument as a method of homicide (Holt, 2017).…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Biological parents are more often victims compared to step or adoptive parents, with more fathers being victims than mothers (Heide & Petee, 2007). Parricide offenders are usually male (83-87%), between 23 and 32 years of age (Fegadel & Heide, 2018). The most common method used in homicide is a blunt or sharp instrument (Fegadel & Heide, 2018).…”

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“…Parricide offenders are usually male (83–87%), between 23 and 32 years of age (Fegadel & Heide, 2018). The most common method used in homicide is a blunt or sharp instrument (Fegadel & Heide, 2018). Offenders are more likely to be White, unmarried, unemployed, and living with their parents at the time of the offense (Baxter, Duggan, Larkin, Cordess, & Page, 2001; Bourget, Gagné, & Labelle, 2007).…”

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The typology of parricide and the role of mental illness: Data‐driven approach

Bojanić

Flynn

Gianatsi

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Parricide is a rare type of homicide in which mental illness is often an important factor. The aims of this study were (a) to describe the characteristics of parricide offenders with a focus on mental illness and clinical care and (b) to examine Heide's widely used typology of parricide through a data-driven approach. We analyzed all homicides in England and Wales between 1997 and 2014. Parricide offenders in our sample were most often male, unmarried, and unemployed, with a third of offenders diagnosed with schizophrenia; 28% had been in contact with mental health services before the offense. The latent class analysis resulted in three types of parricide offenders: middle-aged with affective disorder, previously abused, and seriously mentally Ill, which confirmed, to an extent, Heide's typology. Health and social care services should actively engage with carers of people with mental illness and support to those caring for older relatives and victims of abuse. K E Y W O R D S latent class analysis, mental health services, mental illness, parricide, typology This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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“…(Gill et al, 2013, p. 2) Terrorism caused 0.01%-0.08% of all deaths on a global scale from 1990 to 2017 (Richtie et al, 2022). Furthermore, only a small fraction (2%) of homicides in the United States are comprised of parricides, biological children killing their mothers, fathers, or near relatives; these data appear to be consistent with studies from other countries, including the United Kingdom, France, and Australia (Fegadel & Heide, 2016;West & Feldsher, 2010). Suicide, the act of intentionally killing oneself, constituted 1.3% of global deaths in 2019 (World Health Organization, 2020).…”

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The Hanau terror attack: Unraveling the dynamics of mental disorder and extremist beliefs.

Kupper¹,

Cotti²,

Meloy³

2023

Journal of Threat Assessment and Management

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This case study is a detailed assessment of the paranoid schizophrenia and right-wing extremist beliefs of Tobias Rathjen, who amalgamated three low-base rate events: mass homicide, matricide, and suicide. The offender killed nine individuals during a terrorist attack in Hanau, Germany, on February 19, 2020, before murdering his mother and taking his own life. A comprehensive qualitative analysis of primary and secondary sources was conducted, with raw materials consisting of three written documents and three recorded videos, all authored and disseminated by the perpetrator prior to his attack. Open-source data were predominantly composed of the postmortem forensic psychiatric evaluation of the assailant, as well as minor interpellations between the German government and parliamentary groups, and to a lesser extent printed and online articles. We structured the analysis with the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP-18) and found that Rathjen was positive for 94% of the TRAP-18 indicators. The motivations for his acts of violence were multifaceted, but his major psychiatric illness, paranoid schizophrenia with chronic delusions, was central in his progression to become a lone-actor terrorist. In addition to this internally formed psychotic-driven ideology, the perpetrator was influenced and inspired by external (i.e., online and offline) xenophobic and conspiratorial elements that gradually provided a secondary framework for his violent attack. The complex interplay of his delusions, obsessions, and extreme overvalued beliefs-which drove his fixation-reveal the difficulty of clinically understanding such a case, and also the necessity of doing so, to attempt to risk mitigate these types of subjects by threat assessment teams. Public Significance StatementThis postincident research applied a threat assessment instrument to the lone-actor terrorist Tobias Rathjen, who joined three statistically rare occurrences: mass homicide, matricide, and suicide. Ninety-four percent of the TRAP-18 warning behaviors were prevalent in this case, which was predominantly motivated by a severe mental disorder, paranoid schizophrenia, exacerbated by ideological and conspiratorial beliefs from the far-right cosmos.

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NIBRS and SHR: A Comparison of Two National Homicide Databases With Respect to Parricide

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The typology of parricide and the role of mental illness: Data‐driven approach

The typology of parricide and the role of mental illness: Data‐driven approach

The Hanau terror attack: Unraveling the dynamics of mental disorder and extremist beliefs.

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