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Firearm sexual homicide offenders: Criminal careers, psychopathology, and offense conduct

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Most homicides are firearm‐perpetrated, but in sexual homicide, offenders are more likely to utilize personal weapons (e.g., hands and feet), contact weapons (e.g., blunt object), or edged weapons (e.g., knife) to comport with their fantasy life, motivational states, and psychopathology.
Matt DeLisi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forensic challenges in a case of suspected filicide, matricide, and post‐mortem dismemberment

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Familicide represents one of the most complex forms of domestic violence in forensic practice. Among intrafamilial homicides, filicide and matricide pose major medico‐legal and criminological challenges, particularly when autopsy findings are nonspecific or severely altered by post‐mortem changes.
Isabella Caristo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The complexity of neighborhood effects: A developmental and ecological framework for violent victimization

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Extensive research has established a link between low self‐control and child victimization. However, the specific neighborhood conditions under which low self‐control most strongly influences victimization have been little examined, and, more importantly, no previous studies have investigated the complex ways in which neighborhood context ...
Myunghee You, Brian J. Stults
wiley   +1 more source

Interactional privilege of violence: Status and interaction in the street field

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Criminologists have long described and theorized the relationship between status, respect, and violence within urban communities. Although this finding is generally accepted within criminology, ethnographic empirical illustrations of this phenomenon are sparse.
Hakan Kalkan, Heith Copes
wiley   +1 more source

Layered abandonment: The moral interpretation of suffering in extreme confinement

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Loss and rejection are central to prison life, yet how they crystallize into a more general sense of abandonment remains under‐theorized. Drawing on 64 interviews with men held in prolonged self‐isolation or serving indeterminate forvaring sentences in Denmark, we conceptualize abandonment not simply as hardship but as suffering plus ...
Frederik Rom Taxhjelm, Julie Laursen
wiley   +1 more source

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