Establishing the Victim–Offender Relationship of Initially Unsolved Homicides

Quinet, Kenna; Nunn, Samuel

doi:10.1177/1088767913493783

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“…An uncleared homicide typically means police have not identified a suspect or do not have enough evidence for arrest. More generally, police are simply missing essential information about the suspect(s), including the victim–offender relationship, particularly when, for a period of time, the identity of the victim remains unknown (Quinet and Nunn, 2014).…”

Section: Homicide Clearancementioning

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Homicide clearance in Western Europe

Liem

Suonpää²,

Lehti³

et al. 2018

European Journal of Criminology

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This study provides an overview of homicide clearance in four West European countries: Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. Using data from the European Homicide Monitor, employing similar definitions and uniform coding schemes, this study allowed for unique crosscountry comparisons in factors influencing differences in homicide clearance rates. Findings based on homicides occurring in the period 2009-14 revealed overall low homicide rates in all countries, with a wide variety in homicide clearance rates, ranging from 77 percent in the Netherlands to 98 percent in Finland. Results further showed that both event-based as well as victim-based characteristics significantly influenced the likelihood of homicide clearance, suggesting that homicide clearance rates can, for a large part, be attributed to the prevalent types of homicide in each of these European countries.

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Section: Homicide Clearancementioning

confidence: 99%

Homicide clearance in Western Europe

Liem

Suonpää²,

Lehti³

et al. 2018

European Journal of Criminology

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“…The fraction of homicides with an "unknown" victim-offender relationship has steadily increased over the past several decades which has been attributed to the changing nature of homicides. Drug-related homicides in particular are less likely to be cleared(Riedel, 2008;Quinet and Nunn, 2014).…”

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Substance abuse treatment centers and local crime

Bondurant

Lindo

Swensen

2018

Journal of Urban Economics

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“…But it is inaccurate to attribute most stranger or unknown homicides to serial murder (Hinch & Hepburn, 1998) because of quantification problems such as incomplete data; doing so invites conjecture about the missing records. Quinet and Nunn (2014) challenge the myth that unresolved homicides are disproportionately stranger homicides. They revealed that decreased clearance rates are not due to increased stranger homicides and that the hidden proportion of unknown offender homicides that are stranger homicides has not increased.…”

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Detecting a Decline in Serial Homicide: Have We Banished the Devil from the Details?

Yaksic¹,

Allely²,

Silva³

et al. 2019

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Objectives: The likelihood that serial murderers are responsible for most unresolved homicides and missing persons was examined by investigating the accounting of the phenomenon in the context of a declining prevalence. Methods: A mixed methods approach was used, consisting of a review of a sample of unresolved homicides, a comparative analysis of the frequency of known serial homicide series and unresolved serial homicide series, and semi-structured interviews of experts.Results: The past decade contained almost half the cases (13%) that existed at the 1980s peak of serial homicide (27%). Only 282 (1.3%) strangled females made up the 22,444 unresolved homicides reviewed. Most expert respondents thought it unreasonable that any meaningful proportion of missing persons cases are victims of serial homicide. Conclusions: Technology, shifts in offending behavior, proactive law enforcement action, and vigilance of society have transformed serial killing and aids in viewing offenders as people impacted by societal shifts and cultural norms. The absence of narrative details inhibited some aspects of the review. An exhaustive list of known unresolved serial homicide series remained elusive as some missing persons are never reported. Future research should incorporate those intending to murder serially, but whose efforts were stalled by arrest, imprisonment, or death.

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Establishing the Victim–Offender Relationship of Initially Unsolved Homicides

Cited by 22 publications

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Homicide clearance in Western Europe

Homicide clearance in Western Europe

Substance abuse treatment centers and local crime

Detecting a Decline in Serial Homicide: Have We Banished the Devil from the Details?

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