2006 Annual Meeting
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HOMICIDE RESEARCH WORKING GROUP Annual Summer Conference Conference Theme: "Connecting Research to Practice: New Directions in the Study of Homicide and Violence" Richmond, Virginia June 8-11, 2006 Thursday, June 8 9:45 a.m.- Preconference Workshop: Death Investigation 2:30p.m. Arthur E. Westveer, Jr., Virginia Commonwealth University (FBI-Retired). To be held at VCU Commons, 907 Floyd Avenue. 7:00 p.m.- Opening Reception 9:00 p.m. To be held at the Scott House, 909 West Franklin Street. Friday, June 9 VCU Commons, 907 Floyd Avenue 9:00 a.m. Announcements and Introductions (30 minutes) 9:30 a.m. Panel Session: Issues in Homicide Clearance (50 minutes) Session Chair: Carolyn Rebecca Block, Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority Homicide Clearance Rates: Have We Ignored the Role of Cognitive Variables in the Investigative Process? Mark Zelig, Forensic Psychologist A Descriptive Analysis of Victims and Offenders in the Hits 1981-1995 Data Set and The Effect of Race, Gender, Age, and Distance on Case Solvability in Murder Investigation. Katherine Brown, Kristen Welch, Sam Houston State University, and Robert Keppel, Seattle University Recorder: Wendy Regoeczi, Cleveland State University 10:20 a.m. Break (10 minutes) 10:30 a.m. Panel Session: NIBRS Data and the Analysis of Violent Crime (50 minutes) Session Chair: Lisa Wagner, JRSA Homicide, Serious Assault, and Victimless Crime: Linkages Suggested by NIBRS Data. Roland Chilton, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Wendy Regoeczi, Cleveland State University Are Unknown Victim-Offender Relationship Homicide Cases More Like Stranger, Family, or Acquaintance Homicides? Thomas A Petee, Auburn University, John P. Jarvis, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Lin Huff-Corzine, University of Central Florida, Janice E. Clifford, Auburn University, Jay Corzine, University of Central Florida, and Greg S. Weaver, Auburn University Recorder: C. Gabrielle Salfati, John Jay College of Criminal Justice 11:20 a.m. Break (10 minutes) 11:30 a.m. Catered Lunch & First Business Meeting (90 minutes) 1:00 p.m. Panel Session: International and Comparative Analyses of Homicide I (75 minutes) Session Chair: Jay Corzine, University of Central Florida The Effects of Neighborhoods’ Levels of Social Cohesion and Socio-economic Disadvantage on Homicide Risks. Paul Nieuwbeerta and Henk Elffers, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement South African Homicide: Internalised Violence, Justified Homicide. Doug Thomson, University of Toronto The Homicide Index of England and Wales. Brian J. Francis and Katharina Gruenberg, Lancaster University Recorder: Dallas Drake, Center for Homicide Research 2:15 p.m. Break (15 minutes) 2:30 p.m. Panel Session: Race, Ethnicity, and Homicide (50 minutes) Session Chair: M. Dwayne Smith, University of South Florida Intraracial Rates of Latino Homicide in Comparison with Rates of African-American Homicide. Erin Fishburn, George Washington University Racial Differences in Intimate Partner Homicide in Two Cities. Lisa Tichavsky, Katrina Bloch, Kylie Parrotta, North Carolina State University, and Margaret Zahn, Research Triangle Institute, Center for Crime, Violence, and Justice Research Recorder: To be determined 3:20 p.m. Break (10 minutes) 3:30 p.m. Poster and Literature Session (45 minutes) Literature Display: The Institute for Public Safety Partnerships in Chicago: A Decade of Supporting Innovative Policing in Illinois Robert P. Boehmer, Sandra Kaminska Costello, and Jason Stamps, Center for Research in Law and Justice Poster: Sexual Homicide: Differentiating Crime Scene Actions Jisun Park and C. Gabrielle Salfati Poster: “Death by Other Violence”: Homicide Classification in South Africa 1968- 1994 Douglas Thomson, University of Toronto Literature Display: Justice Research Statistics Association: Resources and Networking Opportunities Lisa Walbolt Wagner and Elizabeth Sanberg, JRSA Poster: Using NIBRS to Examine Parricide Lisa Walbolt Wagner and Elizabeth Sanberg, JRSA Poster: 911-What is your Emergency: An Analysis of Verbal Linguistic Patterns in Homicide Calls Susan Adams, Tracy Harpster, and John Jarvis, Federal Bureau of Investigation 4:15 p.m. Panel Session: International and Comparative Analyses of Homicide II (75 minutes) Session Chair: Paul Nieuwbeerta, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement Canadian and United States Homicide Trends. Thomas Marvell, Justec Research Victimization of Large Scale Human Rights Abuses: Two Case Studies from Southern Sudan and Rwanda. Catrien Bijleveld and Mathilde Huikeshoven, NSCR Institute for the Study of Criminality Change and Stability in the Characteristics of Homicide Victims, Offenders, and Incidents During Rapid Social Change. William Pridemore, Indiana University Recorder: To be determined 5:30 p.m. Break for Dinner. Saturday, June 10th VCU Commons, 907 Floyd Avenue 8:30 a.m. Announcements (30 minutes) 9:00 a.m. Panel Session: Victimization Across the Lifecycle (75 minutes) Session Chair: Candice Batton, University of Nebraska-Omaha Explaining Child Homicide: Integrating Theoretical Traditions. Marc Riedel, Southeastern Louisiana University A Three-City Analysis of Elder Homicide. Victoria Titterington and Napoleon Reyes, Sam Houston State University When An Elderly Person is Murdered: Circumstances of Homicides Against the Elderly in Chicago, 1965 to 2000. Carolyn Rebecca Block and Michelle Repp, Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority Recorder: To be determined 10:15 a.m. Break (10 minutes) 10:25 a.m. Panel Session: Homicide and Violence in Differing Contexts (75 minutes) Session Chair: To be determined Differences Between Convicted Violent Offenders: Completed and Attempted Homicides and Serious Assaults. Paul Smit, Ministry of Justice, the Netherlands, and Catrien Bijleveld, NSCR Institute for the Study of Criminality The Nature of Homicides in Washington, D.C., 1990-2002. Tom McEwen and Elizabeth Groff, Institute for Law and Justice Analysis of Violent Burglary Offenses. Cynthia Barnett-Ryan and David Etnoyer, Federal Bureau of Investigation Recorder: Jenny Mouzos, Australian Institute of Criminology 11:40 a.m. Committee Meetings (30 minutes) 12:10 p.m. Lunch (95 minutes) 1:45 p.m. Panel Session: Serial Homicide (50 minutes) Session Chair: Thomas A. Petee, Auburn University Profiling Serial and Sexual Homicide: An Update of the Research. C. Gabrielle Salfati, John Jay College of Criminal Justice An Examination of Serial Murder in Australia. Jenny Mouzos, Australian Institute of Criminology, and David West, New South Wales Police Recorder: To be determined 2:35 p.m. Break (10 minutes) 2:45 p.m. Panel Session: Firearms and Homicide (50 minutes) Session Chair: Elizabeth Groff, Institute for Law and Justice The Availability of High Lethality Weapons and the Homicide Rate: Controlling for Unemployment and Drug Arrests. Matt Graham, University of Central Florida Evaluating Chicago Ceasefire: A Work in Progress. Richard Block, Loyola University, and Wesley Skogan, Northwestern University Recorder: To be determined 3:35 p.m. Break (10 minutes) 3:45 p.m. Panel Session: Homicide and History (75 minutes) Session Chair: William Pridemore, Indiana University The Proof is in the Penmanship: Convicting Three of America’s Earliest Serial Murderers – Holmes, Fish, and Hickey. Vance McLaughlin, University of North Carolina-Pembroke Violent Death in Omaha: Historical Trends in Lethal Violence Since the 1930’s. Pete Simi and Candice Batton, University of Nebraska-Omaha Defining Socially-Sanctioned Homicide in the United States. Paul H. Blackman, Independence Institute Recorder: Victoria Titterington, Sam Houston State University 5:00 p.m. Panel Session: An Update on the FBI’s Serial Murder Symposium (60 minutes) Panelists: C. Gabrielle Salfati, John Jay College of Criminal Justice John P. Jarvis, Federal Bureau of Investigation Lin Huff-Corzine, University of Central Florida Jay Corzine, University of Central Florida Thomas A. Petee, Auburn University And others? Recorder: To be determined 6:00 p.m. Break for Dinner. Sunday, June 11th VCU Commons, 907 Floyd Avenue 8:30 a.m. Panel Session: Different Approaches to the Study of Homicide (75 minutes) Session Chair: Catrien Bijleveld, NSCR Institute for the Study of Criminality The Challenge of Homicide as a Public Health Problem. Virginia Powell, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Virginia Department of Health, Commonwealth of Virginia Victims of Criminal Homicide: A Test of Sociological and Forensic Approaches. Sean Goodison, George Washington University Integrating Distance Into Mobility Triangle Typologies. Elizabeth Groff and Tom McEwen, Institute for Law and Justice Recorder: Chris Fisher, John Jay College of Criminal Justice 9:15 a.m. Break (15 minutes) 9:30 a.m. Second Business Meeting (90 minutes). 11:00 a.m. Adjournment Lethal Violence Trends in Three Midwestern Cities: The Cases of Kansas City, Omaha, and St. Louis, 1900-2000. Candice Batton and Pete Simi, University of Nebraska, Omaha While homicide declined in the last decade of the twentieth century a preoccupation with lethal violence persists among the general public as well as scholars who seek to understand patterns of violence in hopes of more accurately predicting future trends (Blumstein 2006). Much of the literature, however, is confined to studies of the past two decades and thus ignores longer term trends (Monkkonen 2001a.). In addition, the majority of lethal violence research within the field of criminology has focused on homicide. However, in his