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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyrigth Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Part 1 Current State of Homicide -- 2 Global Trends in Homicide: A Comparison between the UNODC Homicide Data and the WHO Mortality Database -- 3 Latin American Homicide -- 4 Murder as Violent Extremism -- 5 The Coming Crisis in Criminal Justice: True Crime as a Cultural Anomaly -- 6 Theoretical and Empirical Considerations for Examining Homicide Perpetration among Military Veterans -- 7 Homicidal Ideation -- 8 Mass Shootings in the United States and Beyond: Definitions, Contexts, and Controversies -- Part 2 Types of Homicide -- 9 Intimate Partner Homicide -- 10 Youth Homicide Offenders: A Review of Recent Literature -- 11 Legal Homicide -- 12 The Serial Murder Phenomenon Half a Century On -- 13 Gazing into the Abyss? Making Sense of Extreme Crime Scene Behaviors in Sexual Homicide -- 14 Fetal Abduction by Maternal Evisceration (FAMAE): A Forensic Psychiatric Syndrome -- Part 3 Causes and Correlates of Homicide -- 15 Homicide and Criminal Careers: An Empirical Study on Serial Murderers -- 16 Adverse Childhood Experiences and Homicide -- 17 A Descriptive Examination of Homicide and the Victim-Offender Overlap -- 18 Barriocide Reloaded: An Updated Analysis of the Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Gang Homicide in East Los Angeles -- 19 Immigration and Homicide: From Eastern Europe to the U.S.-Mexico Border -- 20 Self-Control, Homicide Offending, and Homicide Victimization -- 21 Homicide and Psychosis -- 22 The Role of Psychopathy in Homicide among Juveniles: A Review of the Research -- 23 Sexual Homicide: Does Anything Matter Beyond Sexual Sadism? -- Part 4 Homicide and the Criminal Justice System -- 24 Homicide and Criminal Justice Policy.

"The Routledge Handbook of Homicide Studies comprehensively examines the topic of homicide from a diverse collection of perspectives and backgrounds. It brings together original contributions on homicide, with a focus on the broad range of impacts of homicide from a multitude of disciplines that evaluate and examine homicide in actual practice and theory. The editors have assembled a comprehensive collection highlighting the multifaceted causes and ramifications of homicide both across the United States and globally with chapters exploring the current state of homicide, typologies of homicides offenders, causes and correlates of homicide, homicides and the criminal justice system, and a professional observations chapters authored by some of the leading practicing professionals in the world, many who have made pivotal contributions to the evaluation and investigation of homicide offenders and cases. Providing state-of-the-art scholarship on homicide in modern society, this handbook is key collection and an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and practitioners engaged in the study of homicide across a diverse range of disciplines including criminal justice and criminology, psychology, sociology, forensics, interdisciplinary departments, and socio-legal studies"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Causes and Correlates: An Introduction -- 1. Types of Homicide -- 2. Homicide Investigations and Interrogations -- 3. Juvenile Homicide -- 4. Legal Homicide and Wrongful Deaths -- 5. Courts, Correction, and Homicide -- 6. Current Issues in Homicide -- 7. Lessons Learned -- Index.