Index
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ISSN: 1521-6136
Publication date: 6 September 2018
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(2018), "Index", Deflem, M. (Ed.) Homicide and Violent Crime (Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance, Vol. 23), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 261-264. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1521-613620180000023015
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INDEX
abuse
, 11, 16, 19, 29, 40, 47–48, 50–51, 53–55, 99
activities, routine
, 97, 210, 213, 215
addiction
, 48, 50–51, 56–57
adolescent onset
, 49, 51–52
age-structure
, 210–213
alcohol
, 14, 53, 86, 130, 246
America
, 44, 183, 192–195, 249, 252
American Dream concept
, 179, 183–185, 188, 192
analysis, firearm
, 252–253
anomie theories, institutional
, 2, 179
anti-blackness
, 188, 190–191
antisocial behaviors
, 50, 85–87, 215
arm campus police
, 91–92
arrest clearances
, 125
belief system, unified
, 69–71, 73, 76
bias crime
, 101–102, 104–105, 109
bias crime offenders
, 105–106, 109
bias homicide
, 101, 103, 105, 113
bias violence
, 2, 101–110, 113
acts of
, 106
committing
, 104–105
fatal acts of
, 106, 110
relevance of
, 101, 103, 105, 107, 109, 111, 113
studying
, 101–102
understanding of
, 101–102, 113
Blacks
, 36, 38, 54, 71, 75–76, 111–112, 126, 128, 140–149, 152–153, 146, 160, 162, 168–169, 188, 190–191
Black segregation
, 152–153
campus police
, 82, 92, 94–96, 99
campus police forces, armed
, 91–92, 94
campus safety
, 2, 91, 93–95, 97, 99
campus safety and security
, 91, 94–95, 97
campus violence
, 2, 83–86, 96–97
caregivers
, 18, 127
Caribbean
, 242–243, 247–250, 252
Caribbean nations
, 244, 248–250, 252–253
child
abuse
, 11, 13–14, 16, 18, 48
and neglect
, 18
child homicides
, 9, 11–13, 15–18
majority of
, 16–17
nature of
, 132
victims of
, 12, 124
childhood onset offenders
, 49, 52
child murder
, 2, 8–11, 13–23
citizens, powerful
, 145–146
clearance rates
, 123, 125, 129, 226, 233, 250
declining
, 126
lower
, 126, 128–129, 131–132
clearing homicide cases
, 126, 129
coercive control
, 144–146
coercive strategies
of crime control
, 141
of policing
, 151
community
academic
, 85–87, 96
minority
, 126, 149–150, 153
urban
, 133, 242–244, 246, 253
relations
, 123, 126, 134, 166, 168
residents
, 132, 167, 169, 171–172
control strategies
, 2, 87–90
coercive crime
, 145
control violence
, 168
coordinated community response
, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39
countries
high homicide
, 200, 217
impoverished
, 229
individual
, 200, 202, 213
member
, 201
crime
combat
, 172–173
cross-national
, 210
female
, 45–46
homicide and violent
, 101
motivated
, 51
organized race
, 187
street
, 188
control
, 141–142, 145, 160, 162, 168, 172–173, 229
coercive
, 140–141, 144–145
control function
, 163–164, 170
data
official
, 110
official bias
, 104, 109
prevention
, 160, 162, 167
problem
, 172, 224
rates
, 46, 133, 154, 162, 165, 188, 213–214
relationship
, 211
scenes
, 130–131, 134, 251–253
scene tape
, 251, 253
trends
, 200–201, 210
international
, 209, 215
criminal behavior
, 44–48, 50–52, 105, 228
criminal homicide
, 243
criminal justice
, 28, 98, 140, 200, 231
criminal justice system
, 28, 44, 47, 90, 125, 165, 188, 224–225, 228–229, 231–233, 245, 253
criminological research
, 44
criminology
, 30, 44, 46
cross-national homicide
data
, 202–204
research
, 202, 209, 211
cross-national studies
, 209, 224, 226, 229
culture
, 9–10, 19–20, 178–182, 186, 188, 191
cycle, reporting
, 30, 33–35
delinquency
, 44, 48–49
deterrence
, 161–162, 164
discrimination
, 102, 141, 143–144, 189–190
DNA evidence
, 131, 251
domestic violence (DV)
, 2, 15–16, 29, 35, 51
DV, victims of
, 27–29, 31–32, 35
economic development
, 225, 229, 253
economic inequalities
, 54, 215, 224, 226, 236
family violence
, 14, 29, 34, 39
murders
, 36
programs
, 29
fatal acts
, 106, 110
felony family violence cases
, 39
female
criminality
, 44–47
homicide offenders
, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53
offenders
, 13–14, 47–49, 52–53
age of
, 14
financial management
, 92, 97–98
force, social
, 75, 148
forensic evidence
, 122, 128–131, 252–253
impact of
, 131
formal social control
, 224–225, 227–229
globalization
, 248, 250
hate crimes
, 101, 111
health, mental
, 45
Hispanics
, 13, 113, 140, 143–149, 153
homicide
categorization
, 245–246
clearance rates
, 126, 250–251
clearances
, 2, 126–129, 132
contemporary
, 187, 216
cross-national studies of
, 230–231
cross-national
, 203, 207, 210, 213
deaths
, 17, 202
definition of
, 203–204
domestic
, 35–36
female-perpetrated
, 54–55
figures
, 202–203
intentional
, 201, 203–204
international
, 201, 209, 211, 217
intimate partner
, 45, 127
investigations
, 126, 129–132, 251
investigators
, 125, 128, 252
nature of
, 123–126, 134
offenses
, 56–57
patterns
, 55
prevalence of
, 224, 230
reduction in
, 205, 207, 211
scenes
, 131, 134, 251
street
, 245
trends,
contemporary international
, 204
potential causes of international
, 200, 210
units
, 134
victimization
, 203, 246, 253
victims
, 13, 126, 243–244, 246
robbery-related
, 244, 246
white
, 187
homicide data
, 201–204, 209, 253
available
, 202, 209
missing
, 208–209
reliable source of cross-national
, 202–203
homicide rates
, 129, 202–203, 205–207, 209, 211–214, 216, 228–230, 249–250, 252
change in
, 201, 206–208, 210, 213
cross-national
, 213
high
, 129, 209, 226–228, 234, 242–243, 246
increasing
, 204, 207
international reductions in
, 207, 216
international
, 204–205
large
, 228, 230
low
, 205, 230, 234
official
, 230
risk
, 253
variations
, 224
identity, personal
, 102, 107–108, 113
incidents,
reported cybercrime
, 98
of violence
, 2, 52
income inequality
, 224–226, 229, 231
inequality
, 141, 225–226, 229–231, 243, 248, 252
infant mortality
, 225, 227
infants
, 8–9, 13, 15–17, 19
international homicide
data
, 201–203
trends
, 204–205, 210–211
interpersonal violence
, 212–213, 215, 217
investigating homicides
, 250–253
justice, procedural
, 165–166, 172
law enforcement officers
, 95, 166
lethal violence
, 35, 39, 103, 133, 187
levels, individual
, 164–165, 171–172, 190, 211, 215–216, 227
male victims
, 12, 32–33, 36–38, 54, 127, 246
adult
, 33
Manson family
, 2,
Manson murders
, 64–65
meta-analysis
, 209, 213, 224, 229
migration, international
, 210–211
minority citizens
, 141, 143, 145–146, 150–152, 154, 168
minority populations
, 144–145, 150
relatively large
, 140–141, 144–145
murder clearance rates
, 123–125, 129
murder victims
, 125, 243–244
National Academies
, 161–163
neoliberalism
, 184, 242, 247–250
neoliberal policies
, 248–249, 253
offenders, bias
, 103–105
ontological turn
, 179, 184–186, 188, 191–192
organizations, world health
, 2, 203, 224
police
agencies
, 143, 147, 149
authorities
, 145–146, 149
brutality
, 140, 142, 144, 146, 149, 251
departments
, 27, 93–94, 142, 146, 149–150, 153, 167
officers
, 98, 142, 145, 149, 151–152, 161, 164, 168–173, 233, 245, 251, 253
strategies
, 164, 170
subculture
, 149
violence
, 2, 143
incidence of
, 2, 144–145, 150, 154
use of
, 140, 145, 153
policies
, 56–57, 93, 98–99, 143, 146, 150, 160, 173, 248
domestic
, 200, 207, 217
economic
, 247–248, 253
policing
, 92–93, 95, 132, 142–143, 145–146, 149, 151, 160–161, 163–164, 170, 173
proactive
, 160–161, 163, 166–167
reactive
, 160–163
subculture of
, 150, 153
policing strategies
, 160–163, 167–168
policy recommendations
, 2, 166
poverty, measure of
, 226–227, 230
power, political
, 145, 149
power-threat hypothesis
, 145, 147–148
prevention of school violence
, 98–99
preventive strategies
, 87–89, 171, 173
proactive policing strategies
, 161–162
property crime
, 49, 52, 99, 200, 215
racial threat
, 140–141, 144, 152
relationship
abusive
, 29, 32, 40, 50–51
positive
, 145, 147–148, 172
risk factors
, 8, 11–12, 14, 17–18, 51
robbery rates
, 124
robbery-related homicides
, 127, 244–245
Services, Department of Health and Human
, 12, 14, 16
shelters
emergency
, 31–32, 34
genesis women’s
, 30, 32–33
social identities
, 105–108, 110
social identity theory
, 105–108
solving homicides
, 125, 127–129, 131, 133
state power
, 178–179, 183, 185–187
strategies, proactive
, 161–163
Supplementary Homicide Reports
, 124–125
survey, world homicide
, 224
Tate-LaBianca Murders
, 65, 75
terrorism
, 85–87, 99, 110
theories of crime
, 185
threat hypothesis
, 144, 146, 148, 154
threats
minority
, 141, 144–147, 152, 154
perceived
, 107–108, 110, 151
totemic principle
, 67–69, 72
totemism
, 66–68
Trinidad
, 242–244, 249
Trinidad and Tobago
, 242
victim/offender relationships
, 14, 127
victims
female
, 12, 28, 33, 36–37
involving child
, 125, 127, 133
ip homicide
, 37
lifelong
, 50
monthly number of
, 34
violence
activity
, 83, 85
acts of
, 83, 86, 88–89, 96, 103, 106, 113, 148
bias-motivated
, 102–103
crime rates
, 164, 187
criminality
, 146, 152
death
, 10
gang
, 242–243, 245, 253
gratuitous
, 144, 149–150
incidents
, 49, 242
individual-level
, 164, 171
levels
, 225
neighborhood
, 169, 173
offenders
, 89, 164–165
offenses
, 46, 50, 52–53, 56–57
physical
, 186
police on
, 165
police use of
, 140, 149, 154
preventing
, 88
prevention
, 87, 90, 98, 170
reducing
, 160, 170–171
relative
, 50
sexual
, 54, 84, 99
state’s monopoly on
, 160–161, 163, 165, 167–171, 173
victimizations
, 52–53, 163
Virginia Tech
, 82, 88
White social identity group
, 113
White women
, 47–48
women, life circumstances of
, 44
women offenders
, 47–48, 56–58
women’s pathways
, 47, 50–51, 57
- Prelims
- Introduction: Studying Violence and Killing
- Part I Family and Gender
- Chapter 1 The Murdering of Children
- Chapter 2 Coordinated Community Response: Toward a More Systematic Response to Domestic Violence in an Urban Setting
- Chapter 3 Feminist Pathways and Female Homicide Offenders
- Part II Institutions and Identity
- Chapter 4 Durkheim, Totemism, and the Manson Family: Theorizing on the Relationship Between Religion and Violence
- Chapter 5 A Decade After Virginia Tech: Considerations of Campus Safety and Security for Higher Education Institutions
- Chapter 6 The Relevance of Bias Violence in the 21st Century
- Part III Police and State Power
- Chapter 7 Solving Homicides: Understanding Trends and Patterns in Police Clearances of Lethal Violence
- Chapter 8 Police Violence across the Racial–Spatial Divide
- Chapter 9 A Multi-Level Theory of the State’s Monopoly on Violence: Explaining the Effect of the Police on Violence
- Chapter 10 Considering an “Alternative Capacity to Desire”: Institutional Anomie Theory, the American Dream, and the Ontological Turn
- Part IV Across the Globe
- Chapter 11 Global Trends in Homicide
- Chapter 12 It is Less about Wealth or Poverty than with Equality and Formal Social Control: An Analysis of the Determinants of the Homicide Rate in 145 Countries of the World
- Chapter 13 Murder in a Twin Island Paradise: Trends and Strategies Implemented to Address Criminal Homicide in Trinidad and Tobago
- About the Authors
- Index