Theory and Explanation in Contemporary European Homicide Research

Kivivuori, Janne; Savolainen, Jukka; Danielsson, Petri

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“…In other words, the higher homicide rates overall, the lower percentages of female victims, since the most varying component is male-to-male homicides, while homicides involving female victims is comparably stable. Although this concept has been subjected to criticism, other scholars have highlighted that Verkko's law is pertinent to homicide rates within the European context (Ganpat et al, 2011;Kivivuori, Savolainen, & Danielsson, 2012).…”

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Differentiating Male and Female Intimate Partner Homicide Perpetrators: A Study of Social, Criminological and Clinical Factors

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Kristiansson

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International Journal of Forensic Mental Health

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Section: Rate Structure and Gender Asymmetrymentioning

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Differentiating Male and Female Intimate Partner Homicide Perpetrators: A Study of Social, Criminological and Clinical Factors

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Kristiansson

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International Journal of Forensic Mental Health

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“…If this segment is high, the proportion of other, more stable homicide types is proportionally low (on the sustained relevance and recent revival of interest in Verkko's analyses, see Kivivuori, Savolainen & Danielsson 2011). Furthermore, Verkko pioneered the analysis of national differences in homicide rates in Europe.…”

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Homicide in Finland, the Netherlands, and Sweden

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Due to differences in definitions, data sources and criminal justice procedures, comparing homicides between countries is not without problems. To overcome these limitations, we have constructed a joint European Homicide Monitor (EHM). So far, Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden constitute the basis of the database. In this contribution, we give an overview of this new data set. In doing so, we elaborate on methodological issues that arose when constructing this data set and discuss the feasibility of constructing an international and comparable homicide data set. Preliminary results show that the EHM as a joint database provides unique opportunities to closely monitor homicide across Europe.

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“…Testing various theoretical hypotheses has been in the centre of research (i.e. Social control, anomie theory, learning theory and so on), while some researchers have introduced new concepts (cognitive dissonance, legitimacy, victim precipitation) (Kivivuori, Savolainen & Danielsson, 2012). Various academics have studied homicide subtypes according to the relationship between the victim, with the majority of the research focusing on intimate partner homicides, perpetrator and homicide subtypes according to motive (Decker, 1996), behavioural classification systems (Salfati & Canter, 1999;Salfati, 2000;Santtila et al, 2001), offence and offender typologies (Horning, Salfati & Labuschagne, 2015) and various individual factors (c.f.…”

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The changing face of homicide research: the shift in empirical focus and emerging research trends

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2015

Journal of Criminal Psychology

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Homicidal behaviour is influenced by a complex interaction of behavioural, situational, and environmental factors that raise many challenging psychological questions. A large and continually-growing body of research has explored the crime of homicide, its epidemiology, victims and perpetrators. The area is developing rapidly, opening up new avenues of study.This special issue of the Journal of Criminal Psychology brings together an exciting array of papers on homicidal behaviour, examining a wide range of issues including juvenile homicide perpetrators, school shootings, child homicide, homicide-suicide and differences in offence behaviours and victim characteristics between hard-to-solve one-off homicides and serial homicides. The range of papers included in this special edition cover a wide range of aspects of homicidal behavior, reflecting the importance of -and the need for -applied research moving away from examining general homicide to specialised research focusing on subtypes of homicide and subgroups of homicide offenders. A research agenda is proposed.

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Theory and Explanation in Contemporary European Homicide Research

Cited by 14 publications

References 36 publications

Differentiating Male and Female Intimate Partner Homicide Perpetrators: A Study of Social, Criminological and Clinical Factors

Differentiating Male and Female Intimate Partner Homicide Perpetrators: A Study of Social, Criminological and Clinical Factors

Homicide in Finland, the Netherlands, and Sweden

The changing face of homicide research: the shift in empirical focus and emerging research trends

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