Weapons Used by Juveniles and Adult Offenders in U.S. Parricide Cases

Heide, Kathleen M.; Petee, Thomas A.

doi:10.1177/0886260507305528

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“…Many other variables are either missing or unavailable in the data-set, making it impractical or impossible to analyze attitudes and mental health conditions of offenders (Lewis et al, 2007;Goldberg, 2007;Haas & Killias, 2002;Sheley & Wright, 1995), gang membership (Decker et al, 1997;Thornberry et al, 2003;Watkins et al, 2008), differences between juvenile and adult offenders (Decker et al, 1997;Zawitz, 1995), differences between male and female offenders (NIJ, 2006), and offender-victim relationships (Heide & Petee, 2007;NIJ, 2006). Two primary factors that account for the large amount of missing values and insufficient data are lack of cases and difficulties in locating and obtaining information by the police.…”

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“…Nearly 84% of juvenile firearm homicide victims in the Metro Atlanta area were male and 80% were African-American. A difference exists in the weapons used in terms of the sex of the victim (Heide & Petee, 2007). Male victims were more likely to be killed with a firearm than female victims, and when the victim was female, handguns were used more often than other firearm types (NIJ, 2006).…”

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“…The literature review reveals that individuals involved, including their personal backgrounds, could explain the types of weapon violations they might be involved in and weapons they might use (Cook & Ludwig, 1997;Decker et al, 1997;Greenfeld & Zawitz, 1995;Heide & Petee, 2007;Mays & Ruddell, 2003;NIJ, 2006;Payne & Gainey, 2008). The following two primary hypotheses were thus developed on the basis of existing literature and the variable information in the codebook for analyzing relevant demographic variables as related to gun incidents in the Eastern City.…”

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Gun incidents at the local level: understanding the demographic variables

Jiao

2012

Criminal Justice Studies

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To maintain public safety and improve system response, a strong need exists for understanding the demographic variables associated with gun offenders and gun cases. This paper was focused on exploring these variables by creating and analyzing a weapon-related database at a local police department. The findings, although limited due to the explorative nature of the study and the quality of case files, shed some light on the personal background variables of suspects such as age, race, residence, and prior record and the weapon offenses they were involved in. The research also reveals certain challenges in developing and analyzing a gun-case database at the local level. Future researchers need to resolve these difficulties before achieving a more accurate and systematic understanding of individuals involved in gun crimes.

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Gun incidents at the local level: understanding the demographic variables

Jiao

2012

Criminal Justice Studies

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“…The relationship between types of drug offenses and weapon offenses could not be established. The relationship between offenders and victims [4,40] could not be tested. And it was impossible to analyze differences between male and female offenders [4], gang membership [5][6][7], and attitudes and mental health conditions of the offenders [22,[41][42][43].…”

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Developing and Analyzing a Local Gun-Case Database: The Process and Related Issues

Jiao

2014

Journal of Criminology

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To maintain public safety and improve system response, a strong need exists for understanding the characteristics of individuals involved in gun crimes, related police activities, and situational/contextual variables surrounding gun incidents. A serious knowledge gap exists, however, in understanding weapon-related offenses at the city level and in how to develop a local guncase database. This paper, which is based on research experiences at an urban police department in USA, describes and analyzes the process and related issues in developing such a database. The study revealed a few critical lessons concerning this process, including those related to communication and cooperation between the police and researchers, quality of data, and importance of a refined dataset for improving local police policies and operations.

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“…10,11 The most frequently-used instruments are firearms (mainly in patricides), followed by sharp instruments (mainly in matricides). 16 Finally and this is very interesting, homicides in a family context usually do not tend to recur, because the motivation for the crime ends with the death of the parent. 11,17 Therefore, father or mother are often the only victim.…”

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Undetected patricide: Inaccuracy of cause of death determination without an autopsy

Campobasso

Laviola

Grattagliano

et al. 2015

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

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Patricide (killing the father) is uncommon form of homicide. Usually the assaults occur at home in the absence of witnesses and adult sons are frequently involved. Homicides in a domestic context usually do not tend to recurrence, because the motivation for the crime ends with the death of the parent. However, this is not what was observed in the present case study dealing with the death of a 70 years old white man originally misclassified as accident and discovered three years later only after an additional homicide in a family context of a 60 years old white lady. Multiple stab wounds to the neck and thorax were misinterpreted at the external male body examination as blunt trauma falling down stairs. No forensic autopsy was requested and no comparison of medical findings with the results from the death scene, such as a bloodstain analysis was performed by the police officers nor required by the judicial authority. This was quite surprising because an additional but preliminary post-mortem external examination performed by a general practitioner on the male body already raised the suspicion that the external lesions were stab wounds thus requiring a forensic autopsy. Only the exhumation of the elderly body, performed years later, confirmed the diagnostic hypothesis raised by the first physician. The present case is quite representative of a death investigation not run professionally and performed by individuals with no specific training where most of the medico-legal investigations (especially for traumatic and violent deaths) are restricted to an external body examination without subsequent autopsy. Although misinterpretation of external lesions is inevitable and significant discrepancies between external body examination and forensic autopsy are not rare, in the case of contradictory results of post-mortem external examination or unclear/suspicious cause and manner of death, investigation should proceed necessarily with a forensic autopsy.

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Weapons Used by Juveniles and Adult Offenders in U.S. Parricide Cases

Cited by 66 publications

References 18 publications

Gun incidents at the local level: understanding the demographic variables

Gun incidents at the local level: understanding the demographic variables

Developing and Analyzing a Local Gun-Case Database: The Process and Related Issues

Undetected patricide: Inaccuracy of cause of death determination without an autopsy

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