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Jan 1, 2016 · Homicide is a multifactorial event. Factors associated with homicide can be organized in four major categories. Understanding homicide is vital when defining social, education, and healthcare policies.
- Mónica Botelho, Rui Abrunhosa Gonçalves
- 2016
Jan 1, 2015 · Abstract. This paper explores the decision-making processes of people who kill, paying particular attention to the role of situational, interactional and emotional factors. The paper considers what killers were thinking and feeling immediately prior to and during the moments of homicide, what situational and emotional factors influence their ...
- Fiona Brookman
- 2015
Fanning out from the violent event itself, this special issue breaks important ground in beginning to map out these objects of analysis across the systems that intersect to produce the conditions for violence in its various forms, thus laying the foundation for new horizons of basic and applied research. Such research could further harness the potential of new technologies to systematically ...
The acquisition and development of aggressive and violent conducts that can potentiate a crime such as homicide have multifactorial origins and imply multiple interconnections. This study discusses research results as well as official national and international statistics. Together, these data provide vital insight when defining healthcare ...
Crime rates are typically reported as the number of incidents per 100,000 people per year. In the United States, for example, there were 17,034 homicides in 2006, which translates to a homicide rate of 5.7 per 100,000 people that year (U.S. Department of Justice, 2007). At first glance, this may make homicide seem like a fairly rare event.
Nov 1, 2015 · The acquisition and development of aggressive and violent conducts that can potentiate a crime such as homicide have multifactorial origins and imply multiple interconnections.
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Jan 31, 2023 · The literature identifies three main types of multiple homicides: (a) serial killing, which refers to the homicide of three or more victims, with a period of pause or study between them; (b) spree homicide, which occurs when there is the murder of several people in a short period (hours or even days) and may even occur in different places, but being part of the same episode; and (c) mass ...
