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2015 ANNUAL MEETING FUTURE DIRECTIONS: STATUS of HOMICIDE RESEARCH in the 21St CENTURY HOMICIDE RESEARCH WORKING GROUP 2015 ANNUAL MEETING FUTURE DIRECTIONS: STATUS OF HOMICIDE RESEARCH IN THE 21st CENTURY HOMICIDE RESEARCH Clearwater Beach, FL June 10-13, 2015 ClearwaterProgram Chairs: Candice Batton Beach, and Wendy RegoecziFL Local Arrangements: Dwayne Smith, Kathleen Heide, and John Cochran June 10-13, 2015 Program Chairs: Candice Batton and Wendy Regoeczi Local Arrangements: Dwayne Smith, Kathleen Heide, and John Cochran Future Directions: Status of Homicide Research in the 21st Century _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Proceedings of the 2015 Meeting of the Homicide Research Working Group Future Directions: Status of Homicide Research in the 21st Century: Proceedings of the 2015 Meeting Of the Homicide Research Working Group Clearwater Beach, Florida Edited by: Dr. Lin Huff-Corzine University of Central Florida Dr. Hollianne Marshall University of California, Fresno Lauren Wright, MA University of Central Florida 1 Future Directions: Status of Homicide Research in the 21st Century _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Proceedings of the 2015 Meeting of the Homicide Research Working Group Homicide Research Working Group Goals The Homicide Research Working Group (HRWG) is an international and interdisciplinary organization of volunteers dedicated to cooperation among researchers and practitioners who are trying to understand and limit lethal violence. The HRWG has the following goals: ♦ to forge links between research, epidemiology and practical programs to reduce levels of mortality from violence; ♦ to promote improved data quality and the linking of diverse homicide data sources; ♦ to foster collaborative, interdisciplinary research on lethal and non-lethal violence; ♦ to encourage more efficient sharing of techniques for measuring and analyzing homicide; ♦ to create and maintain a communication network among those collecting, Maintaining and analyzing homicide data sets; and ♦ to generate a stronger working relationship among homicide researchers Homicide Research Working Group publications include the Proceedings of each annual Intensive Workshop (beginning in 1991) and the journal, Homicide Studies, (beginning in 1997). More information is available on the HRWG web site at http://www.homicideresearchworkinggroup.org Suggested citation: Lin Huff-Corzine, Hollianne Marshall, and Lauren Wright (Eds.) (2015). Future Directions: Status of Homicide Research in the 21st Century. Proceedings of the 2014 Meeting of the Homicide Research Working Group. Clearwater Beach, FL: University of Central Florida. The views expressed in the Proceedings are those of the authors and speakers, and not necessarily those of the Homicide Research Working Group or the co-editors of this volume. © 2015 University of Central Florida. All rights reserved. 2 Future Directions: Status of Homicide Research in the 21st Century _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Proceedings of the 2015 Meeting of the Homicide Research Working Group Table of Contents Homicide Research Working Group Goals ………………………………………………………2 OPENING PRESENTATION: Homegrown Violent Extremists: A Discussion of the Growing Threat……………………..……….6 Presenters: Supervisory Special FBI Agents Keith Ludwick & Thomas Baugher…….…….…6 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Florida’s Dozier School for Boys: A Murder Mystery?..................................................................7 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Erin Kimmerle.7 Program Overview .................................................................................................................... 7 PANEL SESSION 1: Trends & Historical Perspectives on Homicide……………………………….. Trends in NIBRS Homicide and Drug Arrest Rates 1991-2010: Large and Small City Patterns 11 The Fates of Defendants Convicted in Capital Punishment Trials: A long term analyisis .......... 24 The Relationship between the Kendall Murders & the Plot of The Chinese Parrot..................... 28 The Execution of Pirates in America ............................................................................................ 33 PANEL SESSION 2: Serial and Mass Murder…………………………………………………… Addressing the Challenges & Limitations of Utilizing Data to Measure & Study Serial Homicide ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..44 Neurodevelopmental & Psychosocial Risk Factors in Serial Killers & Mass Murderers ........... 69 Weapon Choice and Body Count in Mass Murder: Is There a Relationship?.............................. 76 PANEL SESSION 3: Homicide Investigation & Prosecution…………………………………… Exploring Recent Trends in Police Responses to Homicide, Violence, & Property Crimes: A Glimpse at Trends in 81 Agencies Since 2000……………………………………………….…..86 An Examination of Investigative Practices of Homicide Units in Florida ................................... 96 Guilt, Evidence, and Probability……………………………………………………………..… Homicide Investigation Research. Transatlantic Perspective. ................................................... 110 PANEL SESSION 4: Subtypes of Homicides…………………………………………………… A Preliminary Analysis of Correlates of Child Homicide Victimization Using the National Violent Death Reporting System, 2005-2012…………………………………………….……122 Vehicular Homicide in the United States .................................................................................... 141 Occupational Risk of Homicide or Suicide for Farmers & Agricultural Workers……………... 146 Not in our community: An exploratory analysis of intimate partner homicide in rural versus urban communities……………………………………………………………………………..160 3 Future Directions: Status of Homicide Research in the 21st Century _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Proceedings of the 2015 Meeting of the Homicide Research Working Group PANEL SESSION 5: The Aftermath of Homicide: Responses & Prevention………………… Homicide Survivors: A Literature Review ................................................................................. 174 Family and Other Survivors of Line of Duty Deaths of Law Enforcement Officers ................... 179 Can Comprehensive Domestic Violence Strangulation Prevention & Response Efforts Prevent Homicide? ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 185 PANEL SESSION 6: Analyzing Homicide Crime Scenes and Behaviors……………………. Exploration of Juvenile Homicide Crime-Scene Sctions in the French-Speaking Part of Belgium ………………………………………………………………………………………………….190 The Role of Conflict & Planning in Crime Scene Staging:An Analysis of Solved Homicide Cases ..................................................................................................................................................... 196 Motor Vehicle Theft Following Homicide: Analysis of Motivational Undercurrents ................ 200 PANEL SESSION 7: Theoretical & Measurement Issues in Studying Homicide……….. Overkill, We Know It When We See It: Quantifying Excessive Injury in Homicide ................... 216 Appetitive Violence: Secrets in the Production and Evolution of Homicidal Predation……….. Mass violence: A mixed methods approach to the study of mass victimization incidents .......... 233 POSTER SESSION: Online Marketing of Death Scene Cleaning Services to Private Residences ............................. 241 DRAFT HRWG ANNUAL MEETING MINUTES…………………………………………………………………………….246 Minutes of the First Business Meeting…………………………………………………………………………………………..246 Minutes of the Second Business Meeting……………………………………………………………………………………….249 2015 HRWG ANNUAL MEETING PARTICIPANTS: 2015 HRWG Meeting Participants ............................................................................................. 252 4 Future Directions: Status of Homicide Research in the 21st Century _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Proceedings of the 2015 Meeting of the Homicide Research Working Group OPENING PRESENTATION Homegrown Violent Extremists: A Discussion of the Growing Threat SSAs, Keith Ludwick & Thomas Baugher Federal Bureau of Investigation Supervisory Special Agents (SSA) Keith Ludwick and Thomas Baugher discussed what is referred to as "Homegrown Violent Extremism" (HVE). HVE's are generally defined as individuals of any citizenship who have lived in the United States and who desire to engage in a terrorist activity, including mass murder, to advance an ideological, religious, or social goal. The focus of the discussion is on persons who are influenced by foreign terrorist organizations, but typically act alone without any specific guidance from an external terrorist organization. HVE's are a diverse group of individuals, who can include U.S.-born citizens, naturalized citizens, green card holders or other long-term residents, foreign students, or illegal immigrants. HVE's are similar in that they have become radicalized while living in Western nations, leading them to reject Western cultural values, beliefs, and norms. SSA's Ludwick and Baugher offered their practitioners' view of this threat while discussing cases of those who have engaged in a terrorist attack as well as those who have aspired to commit a terrorist attack, but who were preempted by law enforcement. SSA Keith W. Ludwick currently leads Squad 18 – Technical Services, within the Tampa Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Squad 18, comprised of six
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