Lethal violence : proceedings of the 1995 Meeting of the Homicide Research Group, Ottawa, Canada / editors, Marc Riedel, John Boulahanis
- Corporate Author
- Homicide Research Working Group. Annual Workshop
- Published
- Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, 1997.
- Physical Description
- vi, 234 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Riedel, Marc and Boulahanis, John
- Series
- Contents
- I. Youth violence. Demography and youth homicide in California / Allan F. Abrahamse -- Young killers / Anne S. Lee, Everett S. Lee, Jiafang Chen -- Absolute and relative involvement in offending : contemporary youth and the "not-so-bad-after-all" baby boomers / M. Dwayne Smith, Stephen M. Feiler -- Young killers : the challenge of juvenile homicides / Kathleen M. Heide. II. Correlates of homicide. Drugs and homicide : consumption of alcohol and trafficking in illicit substances as correlates of homicide / Dean Rojek -- American and Canadian firearms laws : comparisons and contrasts in cultures and policy / Steven F. Roth -- The toll of guns / Everett S. Lee, Jiafang Chen -- Homicide, age and economic conditions / Jiafang Chen, Everett S. Lee -- Uncleared homicides in Canada and the United States (work in progress) / Robert A. Silverman, Leslie W. Kennedy. and III. Perceptions and conceptions of homicide. Homicide in Canada : perception and reality / Nuala Kehr, Martin Daly, Margo Wilson -- Reconstructing a stereotype of violent criminality / Ronald A. Farrell, Linda Meyer Williams -- A theoretical model for offender risk assessment / James Bonta -- Juvenile homicide in the United States : trends and contributing factors / Kathleen M. Heide. IV. Sessions. [1] Domestic violence data. Parents who kill their children : a cohort study / Sheilagh Hodgins -- Chicago intimate partner homicide : patterns and trends across three decades / Carolyn Rebecca Block, Antigone Christakos -- Familicide : uxoricide plus filicide? / Margo Wilson, Martin Daly. [2] Domestic violence methods. Measuring violence against women and its impact : content of the Violence against women survey questionnaire / Holly Johnson. [3] Intimate violence policy. Can the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) contribute to our understanding of domestic violence? / Roland Chilton. [4] Youth violence policy. Policy regarding school-based violence prevention programs / Daniel Lockwood. [5] Other issues. A comparative-historical study of homicide in four cities : (work in progress) / Rosemany Gartner, Bill McCarthy -- Woman killing : twenty years of intimate femicide in Ontario / Maria Crawford, Rosemary Gartner.
- Report Numbers
- J 28.24/3:L 56/3
- Subject(s)
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