Homicide and Violent Crime
ISBN: 978-1-78714-876-5, eISBN: 978-1-78714-875-8
ISSN: 1521-6136
Publication date: 6 September 2018
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(2018), "Homicide and Violent Crime", Deflem, M. (Ed.) Homicide and Violent Crime (Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance, Vol. 23), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-viii. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1521-613620180000023016
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Homicide and Violent Crime
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Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance
Series Editor: Mathieu Deflem
Recent Volumes:
| Volumes 1–5: | Jeffrey T. Ulmer |
| Volume 6: | Ethnographies of Law and Social Control, edited by Stacey Lee Burns, 2005 |
| Volume 7: | Sociological Theory and Criminological Research, Views from Europe and United States, edited by Mathieu Deflem, 2006 |
| Volume 8: | Police Occupational Culture: New Debates and Directions, edited by Megan O’Neill, Monique Marks, and Anne- Marie Singh, 2007 |
| Volume 9: | Crime and Human Rights, edited by Stephan Paramentier and Elmar Weitekamp, 2007 |
| Volume 10: | Surveillance and Governance: Crime Control and Beyond, edited by Mathieu Deflem, 2008 |
| Volume 11: | Restorative Justice: From Theory to Practice, edited by Holly Ventura Miller, 2008 |
| Volume 12: | Access to Justice, edited by Rebecca Sandefur, 2009 |
| Volume 13: | Immigration, Crime and Justice, edited by William F. McDonald, 2009 |
| Volume 14: | Popular Culture, Crime and Social Control, edited by Mathieu Deflem, 2010 |
| Volume 15: | Social Control: Informal, Legal and Medical, edited by James J. Chriss, 2010 |
| Volume 16: | Economic Crisis and Crime, edited by Mathieu Deflem, 2011 |
| Volume 17: | Disasters, Hazards and Law, edited by Mathieu Deflem, 2012 |
| Volume 18: | Music and Law, edited by Mathieu Deflem, 2013 |
| Volume 19: | Punishment and Incarceration: A Global Perspective, edited by Mathieu Deflem, 2013 |
| Volume 20: | Terrorism and Counterterrorism Today, edited by Mathieu Deflem, 2015 |
| Volume 21: | The Politics of Policing: Between Force and Legitimacy, edited by Mathieu Deflem, 2016 |
| Volume 22: | Race, Ethnicity and Law, edited by Mathieu Deflem, 2017 |
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Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance Volume 23
Homicide and Violent Crime
Edited by
Mathieu Deflem
University of South Carolina, USA
United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China
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Contents
| List of Contributors | vii | |
| Introduction: Studying Violence and Killing | ||
| Mathieu Deflem | 1 | |
| Part I Family and Gender | ||
| Chapter 1 The Murdering of Children | ||
| Melissa J. Tetzlaff-Bemiller | 7 | |
| Chapter 2 Coordinated Community Response: Toward a More Systematic Response to Domestic Violence in an Urban Setting | ||
| Denise Paquette Boots, Laura M. Gulledge, Timothy Bray and Jennifer Wareham | 25 | |
| Chapter 3 Feminist Pathways and Female Homicide Offenders | ||
| Alesa Liles and Stacy Moak | 43 | |
| Part II Institutions and Identity | ||
| Chapter 4 Durkheim, Totemism, and the Manson Family: Theorizing on the Relationship Between Religion and Violence | ||
| Danielle Sutton | 63 | |
| Chapter 5 A Decade After Virginia Tech: Considerations of Campus Safety and Security for Higher Education Institutions | ||
| Daniel Adrian Doss | 81 | |
| Chapter 6 The Relevance of Bias Violence in the 21st Century | ||
| Kayla Allison | 101 | |
| Part III Police and State Power | ||
| Chapter 7 Solving Homicides: Understanding Trends and Patterns in Police Clearances of Lethal Violence | ||
| Wendy C. Regoeczi | 121 | |
| Chapter 8 Police Violence across the Racial–Spatial Divide | ||
| Malcolm D. Holmes | 139 | |
| Chapter 9 A Multi-Level Theory of the State’s Monopoly on Violence: Explaining the Effect of the Police on Violence | ||
| Paige Vaughn | 159 | |
| Chapter 10 Considering an “Alternative Capacity to Desire”: Institutional Anomie Theory, the American Dream, and the Ontological Turn | ||
| James B. Pratt, Jr | 177 | |
| Part IV Across the Globe | ||
| Chapter 11 Global Trends in Homicide | ||
| Mateus Rennó Santos and Alexander Testa | 199 | |
| 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 | ||
| Claire Chabot and Marc Ouimet | 223 | |
| Chapter 13 Murder in a Twin Island Paradise: Trends and Strategies Implemented to Address Criminal Homicide in Trinidad and Tobago | ||
| Ericka B. Adams and Claudio G. Vera Sanchez | 241 | |
| About the Authors | 257 | |
| Index | 261 | |
List of Contributors
| Ericka B. Adams | Department of Justice Studies, San José StateUniversity, CA, USA. |
| Kayla Allison | Departments of Criminal Justice and Sociology, Indiana University, IN, USA |
| Melissa J. Tetzlaff-Bemiller | Department of Social Sciences, Augusta University, GA, USA |
| Denise Paquette Boots | Program in Criminology and Criminal Justice University of Texas at Dallas, TX, USA |
| Timothy Bray | Program in Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Texas at Dallas, TX, USA |
| Claire Chabot | School of Criminology, University of Montreal, QC, Canada |
| Mathieu Deflem | University of South Carolina, Department of Sociology, SC, USA |
| Daniel Adrian Doss | Computer Information Systems, University of West Alabama, AL, USA |
| Laura M. Gulledge | School of Criminal Justice, The University of Southern Mississippi, MS, USA |
| Malcolm D. Holme | Department of Sociology, University of Wyoming, WY, USA |
| Alesa Liles | Department of Government and Sociology, Georgia College and State University, GA, USA |
| Stacy Moak | Department of Social Work, University of Alabama Birmingham, AL, USA |
| Marc Ouime | École de Criminologie, Université de Montréal, QC, Canada |
| James B. Pratt, Jr | Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, CA, USA |
| Wendy C. Regoeczi | Department of Criminology, Anthropology, and Sociology, Cleveland State University, OH, USA |
| Claudio G. Vera Sanchez | Department of Justice Studies, San José State University, CA, USA |
| Mateus Rennó Santos | Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, MD, USA |
| Danielle Sutton | Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph, ON, Canada |
| Alexander Testa | Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, MD, USA |
| Paige Vaughn | Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri – St. Louis, MO, USA |
| Jennifer Wareham | Department of Criminal Justice, Wayne State University, MI, USA |
- 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