Fiona Brookman is Professor of Criminology at the University of South Wales, UK. She is the author of Understanding Homicide (2005) and co-editor of Handbook on Crime (2010). She has written over fifty articles and chapters on various themes related to violence and homicide. Edward R. Maguire is Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Associate Director in the Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety at Arizona State University, USA. He has written or edited four books and more than seventy articles and chapters on various themes related to policing, violence, research methodology, and comparative criminology. Mike Maguire is Part-Time Professor of Criminology at the University of South Wales, UK and Professor Emeritus at Cardiff University, UK. He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (5th edition, 2012), and is a long-standing member of the Correctional Services Accreditation and Advice Panel.

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• Notes on Contributors ixIntroduction: Homicide in Global Perspective xixFiona Brookman, Edward R. Maguire, and Mike MaguirePart I Homicide in Context 11 Murderous Thoughts: The Macro, Micro, and Momentary in Theorizing the Causes and Consequences of Criminal Homicide 3Helen Innes, Sarah Tucker, and Martin Innes2 Geographic and Temporal Variation in Cross‐National Homicide Victimization Rates 20Meghan L. Rogers and William Alex Pridemore3 Some Trends in Homicide and Its Age‐Crime Curves 44Alfred Blumstein4 Social and Legal Responses to Homicide 54Mark CooneyPart II Understanding Different Forms of Homicide 715 Gang Homicide in the United States: What We Know and Future Research Directions 73Jesenia M. Pizarro6 Drug‐Related Homicide 89Sean P. Varano and Joseph B. Kuhns7 Sexual Homicide: A Review of Recent Empirical Evidence (2008 to 2015)105Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan8 When Women are Murdered 131R. Emerson Dobash and Russell P. Dobash9 Women Murdered in the Name of “Honor” 149Aisha K. Gill10 Hate and Homicide: Exploring the Extremes of Prejudice‐Motivated Violence 165Nathan Hall11 Infanticide 180Carl P. Malmquist12 Parricide Encapsulated 197Kathleen M. Heide13 Corporate Homicide, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Human Rights 213Gary Slapper14 Empirical Challenges to Studying Terrorism and Homicide 231Joseph K. Young and Erin M. Kearns15 Multiple Homicide: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder 249Jack Levin and James Alan Fox16 Genocide and State‐Sponsored Killing 268Andy Aydın‐AitchisonPart III Homicide around the Globe: International Perspectives 28917 Homicide in Europe 291Marieke Liem18 Comparing Characteristics of Homicides in Finland, the Netherlands, and Sweden 308Soenita M. Ganpat19 Homicide in Britain 320Fiona Brookman, Helen Jones, and Sophie Pike20 Homicide in Canada 345Myrna Dawson21 Typifying American Exceptionalism: Homicide in the USA 368Amanda L. Robinson and Christopher D. Maxwell22 Homicide in Japan 388Tom Ellis and Koichi Hamai23 Homicide in Australia and New Zealand: Precursors and Prevention 412Paul Mazerolle, Li Eriksson, Richard Wortley, and Holly Johnson24 Drivers of Homicide in Latin America and the Caribbean: Does Relative Political Capacity Matter? 432Erik Alda25 Homicide in Russia: Issues of Measuring and Theoretical Explanations 451Alexandra Lysova and Nikolay Shchitov26 Understanding Homicide in China 467Liqun Cao27 Homicide in India: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives 486K. Jaishankar and Debarati Halder28 Homicide in South Africa: Offender Perspectives on Dispute‐related Killings of Men 499Marie Rosenkrantz LindegaardPart IV Investigating Homicide 51529 Technology and Homicide Investigation 517Patrick Q. Brady and William R. King30 Solving Homicides: Trends, Causes, and Ways to Improve 533Thomas S. Alexander and Charles F. Wellford31 Using DNA in the Investigation of Homicide: Scientific, Operational, and Evidential Considerations 548Robin Williams32 Cold Case Homicide Reviews 566Cheryl Allsop33 A Damning Cascade of Investigative Errors: Flaws in Homicide Investigation in the USA 578Deborah Davis and Richard A. LeoPart V Reducing and Preventing Homicide 59934 Seeing and Treating Violence as a Health Issue 601Charles Ransford and Gary Slutkin35 Identifying and Intervening in Homicide Networks 626Andrew M. Fox and Olivia R. Allen36 Focused Deterrence and the Reduction of Gang Homicide 643Anthony A. Braga37 From Theory to Practice: Reducing Gun Violence and Homicide in Detroit 659Eric Grommon, John D. McCluskey, and Timothy S. Bynum38 Preventing Homicide 676Edward R. MaguireIndex 693