Waller, Bernadine Y Bent-Goodley, Tricia B
Published in
Journal of interpersonal violence
African American women survivors of intimate partner violence are disproportionately murdered and help-seeking is a critical variable to examine as it relates to it. There is an urgent need to develop culturally salient interventions that center African American women's ways of knowing. An initial step to doing so is identifying how they employ the...
Zimmerman, Gregory M Fridel, Emma E McArdle, Kara
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Journal of interpersonal violence
Despite a wealth of research on intimate partner homicide, research on intimate partner homicide followed by suicide of the perpetrator is sparse. Existing studies on intimate partner homicide-suicide: tend to be descriptive, not keeping pace with quantitative advances in the epidemiological and social sciences; have yet to examine how context impa...
Rogers, Meghan L. Pridemore, William Alex
The number of cross-national homicide studies is increasing rapidly. Many scholars, however, do not consider the details of how individual nations and the four main centralized homicide data sources—raw estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) Mortality Database, adjusted estimates from the WHO Global Health Observatory, United Nations Of...
Di Marco, Martín Hernán
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Journal of interpersonal violence
This paper identifies the explanatory narratives used by perpetrators of male-male homicide in Buenos Aires (Argentina) to make sense of this crime. Drawing upon narrative criminology and masculinities theories, this study enquires into the rationalisations of perpetrators, considering their emic terms, rationalities and stories. Fieldwork was cond...
Varga, Mary Alice Bordere, Tashel C Varga, Matthew D
Published in
Omega
This study examined the holistic grief effects of Black female college students. A total of 105 participants from two universities, who identified as Black or African American females, completed a questionnaire regarding death losses and grief effects they experienced. Descriptive statistics and ANOVAs examined between-group differences based on lo...
De Veauuse Brown, Natasha F Watson, Ashley E N
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Journal of interpersonal violence
Sexual homicide (SH) is the most severe outcome of sexual violence and disproportionately affects women. While SH is rare (
Alberda, Daphne L. Duits, Nils van den Bos, Kees Autsema, Anneke Kempes, Maaike
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology
Although many studies have examined various aspects of terrorism, relatively little is known about risk indicators associated with specific types of terrorist offences. To partly fill this void, this study explores differences on risk indicators of the Violent Extremism Risk Assessment tool (VERA-2R) between 21 Jihadist offenders who were convicted...
Sun, Ching-Fang Mansuri, Zeeshan Trivedi, Chintan Vadukapuram, Ramu Reddy, Abhishek
Published in
Frontiers in Psychiatry
Objectives Adolescents with a homicidal tendency is a growing concern in the United States. Studies in the past have showcased the relationship between homicidal ideation (HI) and psychiatric illnesses, but very limited information is available on the adolescent and inpatient population. We aim to evaluate the prevalence of demographic characterist...
Lynch, Kellie R Logan, T K
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Journal of interpersonal violence
Given the heightened risk for fatality and known non-fatal harm firearms pose in abusive situations, it is critical to consider the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on firearm-related abuse and safety planning-particularly considering the surge in firearm sales in 2020. This study documented the impact of the pandemic on firearm access and violence,...
Simpson, Alexander If Penney, Stephanie R Jones, Roland M
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The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry
Available evidence suggests that persons with serious forms of mental illness are 4-10 times more likely to commit homicide as compared to non-affected members of the general population. The relationship between homicide and psychotic illness has now been subject to longitudinal investigation in six different populations across eight studies coveri...