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<p>Notes on Contributors ix</p> <p>Introduction: Homicide in Global Perspective xix<br /> <i>Fiona Brookman, Edward R. Maguire, and Mike Maguire</i></p> <p><b>Part I Homicide in Context 1</b></p> <p>1 Murderous Thoughts: The Macro, Micro, and Momentary in Theorizing the Causes and Consequences of Criminal Homicide 3<br /> <i>Helen Innes, Sarah Tucker, and Martin Innes</i></p> <p>2 Geographic and Temporal Variation in Cross‐National Homicide Victimization Rates 20<br /> <i>Meghan L. Rogers and William Alex Pridemore</i></p> <p>3 Some Trends in Homicide and Its Age‐Crime Curves 44<br /> <i>Alfred Blumstein</i></p> <p>4 Social and Legal Responses to Homicide 54<b><br /> </b><i>Mark Cooney</i></p> <p><b>Part II Understanding Different Forms of Homicide 71</b></p> <p>5 Gang Homicide in the United States: What We Know and Future Research Directions 73<br /> <i>Jesenia M. Pizarro</i></p> <p>6 Drug‐Related Homicide 89<br /> <i>Sean P. Varano and Joseph B. Kuhns</i></p> <p>7 Sexual Homicide: A Review of Recent Empirical Evidence (2008 to 2015)105<br /> <i>Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan</i></p> <p>8 When Women are Murdered 131<br /> <i>R. Emerson Dobash and Russell P. Dobash</i></p> <p>9 Women Murdered in the Name of “Honor” 149<br /> <i>Aisha K. Gill</i></p> <p>10 Hate and Homicide: Exploring the Extremes of Prejudice‐Motivated Violence 165<br /> <i>Nathan Hall</i></p> <p>11 Infanticide 180<br /> <i>Carl P. Malmquist</i></p> <p>12 Parricide Encapsulated 197<br /> <i>Kathleen M. Heide</i></p> <p>13 Corporate Homicide, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Human Rights 213<br /> <i>Gary Slapper</i></p> <p>14 Empirical Challenges to Studying Terrorism and Homicide 231<br /> <i>Joseph K. Young and Erin M. Kearns</i></p> <p>15 Multiple Homicide: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder 249<br /> <i>Jack Levin and James Alan Fox</i></p> <p>16 Genocide and State‐Sponsored Killing 268<br /> <i>Andy Aydın‐Aitchison</i></p> <p><b>Part III Homicide around the Globe: International Perspectives 289</b></p> <p>17 Homicide in Europe 291<br /> <i>Marieke Liem</i></p> <p>18 Comparing Characteristics of Homicides in Finland, the Netherlands, and Sweden 308<br /> <i>Soenita M. Ganpat</i></p> <p>19 Homicide in Britain 320<br /> <i>Fiona Brookman, Helen Jones, and Sophie Pike</i></p> <p>20 Homicide in Canada 345<br /> <i>Myrna Dawson</i></p> <p>21 Typifying American Exceptionalism: Homicide in the USA 368<br /> <i>Amanda L. Robinson and Christopher D. Maxwell</i></p> <p>22 Homicide in Japan 388<br /> <i>Tom Ellis and Koichi Hamai</i></p> <p>23 Homicide in Australia and New Zealand: Precursors and Prevention 412<br /> <i>Paul Mazerolle, Li Eriksson, Richard Wortley, and Holly Johnson</i></p> <p>24 Drivers of Homicide in Latin America and the Caribbean: Does Relative Political Capacity Matter? 432<br /> <i>Erik Alda</i></p> <p>25 Homicide in Russia: Issues of Measuring and Theoretical Explanations 451<br /> <i>Alexandra Lysova and Nikolay Shchitov</i></p> <p>26 Understanding Homicide in China 467<br /> <i>Liqun Cao</i></p> <p>27 Homicide in India: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives 486<br /> <i>K. Jaishankar and Debarati Halder</i></p> <p>28 Homicide in South Africa: Offender Perspectives on Dispute‐related Killings of Men 499<b><br /> </b><i>Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Investigating Homicide 515</b></p> <p>29 Technology and Homicide Investigation 517<br /> <i>Patrick Q. Brady and William R. King</i></p> <p>30 Solving Homicides: Trends, Causes, and Ways to Improve 533<br /> <i>Thomas S. Alexander and Charles F. Wellford</i></p> <p>31 Using DNA in the Investigation of Homicide: Scientific, Operational, and Evidential Considerations 548<br /> <i>Robin Williams</i></p> <p>32 Cold Case Homicide Reviews 566<br /> <i>Cheryl Allsop</i></p> <p>33 A Damning Cascade of Investigative Errors: Flaws in Homicide Investigation in the USA 578<b><br /> </b><i>Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo</i></p> <p><b>Part V Reducing and Preventing Homicide 599</b></p> <p>34 Seeing and Treating Violence as a Health Issue 601<br /> <i>Charles Ransford and Gary Slutkin</i></p> <p>35 Identifying and Intervening in Homicide Networks 626<br /> <i>Andrew M. Fox and Olivia R. Allen</i></p> <p>36 Focused Deterrence and the Reduction of Gang Homicide 643<br /> <i>Anthony A. Braga</i></p> <p>37 From Theory to Practice: Reducing Gun Violence and Homicide in Detroit 659<br /> <i>Eric Grommon, John D. McCluskey, and Timothy S. Bynum</i></p> <p>38 Preventing Homicide 676<b><br /> </b><i>Edward R. Maguire</i></p> <p>Index 693</p>

<p> Fiona Brookman is Professor of Criminology at the University of South Wales, UK. She is the author of Understanding Homicide (2005) and co-editor of Handbook on Crime (2010). She has written over fifty articles and chapters on various themes related to violence and homicide. <p>Edward R. Maguire is Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Associate Director in the Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety at Arizona State University, USA. He has written or edited four books and more than seventy articles and chapters on various themes related to policing, violence, research methodology, and comparative criminology. <p>Mike Maguire is Part-Time Professor of Criminology at the University of South Wales, UK and Professor Emeritus at Cardiff University, UK. He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (5th edition, 2012), and is a long-standing member of the Correctional Services Accreditation and Advice Panel.

<p>"The Handbook of Homicide will be an invaluable resource to those interested in understanding the phenomenon in all its diversity and complexity."</p> <p>Thomas P. Abt, Harvard Kennedy School <p>"Murder, the gravest of human transgressions, and other varieties of homicide are treated in exhaustive breadth in this volume. The geographic and topical scope are impressive. There are contributions both fascinating for scholars of homicide and useful for those charged with keeping it from happening and solving it when it does. How much of cross-national variation in homicide statistics reflects real differences in rates of killing rather than differences in definition and reporting practices? What are the non-legal factors influencing how severely different killings are sanctioned? What is corporate homicide? Why is DNA rarely a smoking gun? These, among many other questions asked and answered, make this an interesting and valuable collection." <p>Joel Wallman, The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation for the Study of Violence. <p>The Handbook of Homicide presents a comprehensive collection of original essays by renowned experts and scholars from around the world, exploring the nature, causes, and patterns of homicide, as well as policies and practices for its investigation and prevention. It offers novel insights into the significant range and complexity of homicide in its myriad forms and includes chapters on homicide in regions of the world and types of homicide that are often overlooked in existing literature. Theoretical and research-based insights are presented to help explain global variations in crime rates, and shifting patterns and trends. Further chapters explore specific types of homicide including: gang, drug-related, sexual homicides, honor and hate killings, infanticide, terrorism, and genocide. This Handbook also examines the latest approaches utilized by police agencies and forensic science labs to investigate homicide cases, and covers the state-of-the-art research currently available to reduce and prevent homicide <p>The Handbook of Homicide provides an indispensable source of information on all aspects of the extremely complex global phenomenon that represents the most serious form of violent crime

<p>"<i>The Handbook of Homicide </i>will be an invaluable resource to those interested in understanding the phenomenon in all its diversity and complexity." - <b>Thomas P. Abt</b>, Harvard Kennedy School</p> <p>"Murder, the gravest of human transgressions, and other varities of homicide are treated in exhaustive breadth in this volume. The geographic and topical scope are impressive. There are contributions both fascinationg for scholars of homicide and useful for those charged with keeping it from happening and solving it when it does. How much of cross-national variation in homicide statistics reflects real differences in rates of killing rather than differences in definition and reporting practices? What are the non-legal factors influencing how severely different killings are sactioned? What is corporate homicide? Why is DNA rarely a smoking gun? These, among many other questiosn asked and answered, make this an interesting and valuable collection.' - <b>Joel Wallman</b>, The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation for the Study of Violence</p>

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