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Homicide Victim/Offender Relationship in Florida Medical Examiner District 8

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ABSTRACT:

This study examined the correlations between victim/offender relationship and three variables: motive, weapon choice, and number of injuries inflicted. Empirical relationship and motive categories were used. The sample consisted of 57 intentional homicide cases from Florida Medical Examiner District 8 between the years 1992 and 1996. Relationships were divided into primary and secondary categories. Primary relationships included intimates, relatives, and friends; secondary relationships included acquaintances and strangers. Motives were classified as romantic dispute, argument/conflict, revenge, or felony type; weapons as firearm or contact; and number of injuries inflicted as single or multiple. A significant correlation was found between victim/offender relationship and homicide motive; however, the revenge and felony type motive categories did not differ. Unexpectedly, no correlation was found between victim/offender relationship and either weapon choice or number of injuries inflicted. Further In 1958, Wolfgang published his seminal work, Patterns in Criminal Homicide, in which he analyzed police records for 588 cases of criminal homicide in Philadelphia between 1948 and 1952 (1)...

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Center For Homicide Research

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Police Support Overview Statement – Purpose, Limitations, Access The mission of the Center for Homicide Research is to develop research that will assist in increasing the solvability of all homicide cases. To that end, the Center is developing wideranging expertise on the topic of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender homicide. The Center’s expertise may aid in active homicide investigations. Access to case files may be limited due to ethical concerns depending on specificity of a request. Likewise, unpublished resources may not be immediately available. If you feel that the Center can provide insight or information that would assist in a case, please contact Dallas Drake by e-mail at dallas.drake@mindspring.com. The Center makes every effort to work with law enforcement personnel, prosecutorial agencies, or criminology researchers. Here are a few of the resources the Center for Homicide Research has to offer: Research Reports The Center for Homicide Research has developed several technical research reports on topics related to gay homicide. The Center may research topics by request...

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Missing Children Homicide Investigation

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Most children who are not where parents expect them to be, are "missing" for a very short period of time and reappear on their own, with no evidence of foul play.However, some children are missing against their will.The great majority of those children, even though they have undergone a traumatic experience, are not harmed seriously and are returned home alive. Many of them are taken by estranged parents or other family members. A small group is victimized by more predatory abductors, who want to make money by ransoming the child, to sexually molest the victim,and/or to kill the child. The list of children who are abducted and killed each year by someone who is not a family member is relatively small, compared to the number of missing children or to other types of child murder

Because of their rarity among criminal homicides their complexity, emotion and high profile nature, they are extremely...

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Homicide Crimes Part (2)

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Abstract

It is well established that gangs facilitate violent offending by members, but the mechanisms by which that facilitation occurs remain unclear. Gangs may promote violence indirectly by facilitating members' access to risky situations such as drug markets or directly through gang functions such as turf defense. We explore alternative modes of facilitation in a comparison of gang-affiliated homicides (which involve gang members but do not result from gang activity), gang-motivated homicides (which result from gang activity), and nongang youth homicides in St. Louis. We find important differences as well as similarities in the time trends and event characteristic of the two types of gang homicide; in key respects the gang-affiliated homicides more closely resemble the nongang events. The gang-motivated events exhibit a somewhat distinctive spatial patterning, as might be expected from their connection to turf conflicts. However, all three homicide types are highly concentrated in racially isolated, disadvantaged neighborhoods, which remain the fundamental social facilitators of both gang and nongang violence...

Additional Resource: Facilitating Violence: A Comparison of Gang-Motivated, Gang-Affiliated, and Nongang Youth Homicides

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Homicide Crimes Part (1)

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Abstract

It is well established that gangs facilitate violent offending by members,but the mechanisms by which that facilitation occurs remain unclear. Gangs may promote violence indirectly by facilitating members' access to risky situations such as drug markets or directly through gang functions such as turf defense. We explore alternative modes of facilitation in a comparison of gang-affiliated homicides (which involve gang members but do not result from gang activity), gang-motivated homicides (which result from gang activity), and non gang youth homicides in St. Louis. We find important differences as well as similarities in the time trends and event characteristic of the two types of gang homicide; in key respects the gang-affiliated homicides more closely resemble the non gang events. The gang-motivated events exhibit a somewhat distinctive spatial patterning,as might be expected from their connection to turf conflicts. However, all three homicide types are highly concentrated in racially isolated,disadvantaged neighborhoods, which remain the fundamental social facilitators of both gang and non gang violence.

Additional Resource: Facilitating Violence: A Comparison of Gang-Motivated, Gang-Affiliated, and Nongang Youth Homicides

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Cardiovascular Disease and Drowning: Autopsy and Laboratory Findings

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Introduction: The purpose of this report is to describe the main autopsy and laboratory findings from a large number of drowning victims in Greece.
Methods. A retrospective analysis was carried out of the consecutive cases of drowning victims autopsied in our department during the period 1997-2004.
Results. A total of 197 submersion cases were referred to the Department. In 168 cases drowning was considered as the cause of death. In 82 cases (49%) significant histopathological findings from the cardiovascular system were present. Alcohol was found in 21 cases (13%) and psychoactive substances in 4 cases (2%). Food was found in the stomach of 45 drowning victims (27%). Men (65%) and elderly people (60 years and older, 74%) made up the majority of drowning victims. In 29 submersion cases the cause of death was other than drowning; in 25 of these cases death was attributed to cardiovascular disease (complication of coronary artery disease, 23 cases; dissecting aortic aneurysm, 1 case; cerebral stroke, 1 case).
Conclusions. The great majority

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The Integration Of Crime Analysis Into Patrol Work:

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SECTION 1: Introduction

This guidebook has been developed for mid-level managers and commanders of police agencies who are looking for guidance in fully incorporating crime analysis into their agency, particularly into patrol. The guide presents a series of considerations and recommendations for crime analysis integration, provides crime analysis product examples that have been implemented into innovative police agencies around the United States, discusses key issues of implementation, and outlines an implementation framework strategy. Notably, this guide is not a detailed plan that can be taken and immediately adopted by any one agency, but is a practical overview of the importance of crime analysis and its usefulness and offers recommendations and examples for crime analysis integration. Importantly, the readers of the guide should have some level of understanding of crime analysis and its relevance for police practice. Although the value of crime analysis is discussed briefly, this guide primarily focuses on providing advice for agencies that are seeking to integrate crime analysis effectively. In addition, throughout this guidebook, the term “integration” refers to systematically using crime analysis processes and products as essential components of the everyday operations of a police agency. Integrated crime analysis involves merging the results of analysis with the patrol function and investigative elements of an agency so...

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Handgun Wounding Factors and Effectiveness

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TACTICAL REALITIES

Shot placement is an important, and often cited, consideration regarding the suitability of weapons and ammunition. However, considerations of caliber are equally important and cannot be ignored. For example, a bullet through the central nervous system with any caliber of ammunition is likely to be immediately incapacitating.' Even a .22 rimfire penetrating the brain will cause immediate incapacitation in most cases. Obviously, this does not mean the law enforcement agency should issue .22 rimfires and train for head shots as the primary target. The realities of shooting incidents prohibit such a solution. Few, if any, shooting incidents will present the officer with an opportunity to take a careful, precisely aimed shot at the subject’s head. Rather, shootings are characterized by their sudden, unexpected occurrence; by rapid and unpredictable movement of both officer and adversary; by limited and partial target opportunities; by poor light and unforeseen obstacles; and by the life or death stress of sudden, close, personal violence. Training is...

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26A C.J.S. Detectives

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1. Definition and Status

A ‘detective’? Is defined as one whose business It Is_to detect criminals or discover matters of secrecy and pernicious Import for the protection of the public. Detectives may be either private or public.

A detectives one whose business it is to detect criminals or discover matters of secrecy and pernicious import for the protection of the public.

A private detective is one engaged by individuals for private protection; a person unofficially engaged in obtaining secret information for the use and benefit of those who choose to employ him and pay his compensation.The rendition of services without compensation does not constitute a person private detective, as a matter of law. A private detective, although licensed, is not generally regarded as a public officer, unless made such by appointment from lawful authority,® but it has been stated that a Private Detective is in essence a...

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Amber Lee Hill

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Stanton Woman Victim Of Foul Play

 

Amber Lee Hill

Friends and family worried when Amber Lee Hill vanished after she finished work at around 6am on January 9, 2007.  The 38-year-old had completed

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