Exam 2 Flashcards
Most common type of homicide
Confrontational
Victim precipitation
Victim contributes to eventual death
Honor contests
Seemingly insignificant events precipitating male on male homicide
Road rage
Cell phones contribute to frequency of these events
Victims are often offenders
Stress reduction & time management can help
Audience
Important in confrontational homicide
Physiology in male aggression
Testosterone & low serotonin linked
Steroid use has been linked
Maturation, self control, & prefrontal cortex development helps
Investigative considerations in confrontational homicide
Victimology
Crime scene
Weapon brought to the scene
Situational factors to IPH
Age of partners
Race
Socioeconomic status
Marital status
Length of relationship
Substance use / abuse
Availability of weapons
Relationship problems
Jealousy
Lack of social support
Drinking & arguing
Unemployment
Men w/ history of violence, threats of death, strangulation
Theories for IPH
Battered woman syndrome
Feminist theory
Social learning theory
Labeling, nested ecological, virtuous violence
Economic deprivation w/in strain theory
Lethality assessment
Helpful but not yet scientifically predictive model
Fatality review teams
Spread best practice & review individual cases
Familicide definitions
Anger/revenge for partner leaving
Male “saving” family members
Family annihilator - suicide by proxy
Financial motives - economic stress
Familicide - theories
Social learning theory
Routine activities theory
Psychological & social dimensions
Filicide
Parent kills child
Familicide mostly men, filicide can be either
Neonaticide
Killing baby within first 24 hours
