Contents
Introduction / Karen F. Parker and Richard Stansfield
Part I. Fundamentals of Homicide
1. Data Drudges Unite! Taking Stock of Historical Studies of Homicide / Randolph Roth
2. Thirty Years of Homicide in America: A Postmortem of 1990–2019 / Mark T. Berg and Ethan M. Rogers
3. Data Sources for Studying Homicide / Wendy Regoeczi and John Jarvis
4. Cross-National Homicide / Meghan Rogers and William Alex Pridemore
Part II. The Scope
5. Social Structure and Homicide / James Tuttle, Patricia L. McCall, and Kenneth C. Land
6. Neighborhoods and Homicide: Egohoods as a Solution to Methodological Challenges / John R. Hipp and Xiaoshuang Iris Luo
7. Doing Fieldwork in Homicide Investigation / Fiona Brookman and Helen Jones
8. Examining Black Homicide through Lenses of Epidemiology / Sharon D. Jones-Eversley, Jacqueline Rhoden-Trader, and Johnny Rice II
Part III. The Nature of Homicide
9. Death under Review: Differentiating Lethal and Nonlethal Intimate Partner Violence / Kirk R. Williams, Kasey Ragan, Amy Magnus, and Veronica Valencia Gonzalez
10. Gang Homicide in the United States / Jose Antonio Sanchez and David C. Pyrooz
11. Drug-Related Homicides / Arnaldo Rabolini, Jolien van Breen, and Marieke Liem
12. Firearms and Homicide / Elizabeth Griffiths and Daniel Semenza
13. U.S. Homicide Inequalities across Race, Ethnicity, and Gender / Shytierra Gaston
14. The Empirics of Immigration and Homicide: Evidence from California and Texas / Michael T. Light, Laura Boisten, and Jungmyung Kim
15. Studying Demographic Shifts and Homicide: The Case of Texas and Immigration Status / Erin Orrick, Chris Guerra, and Alex R. Piquero
Part IV. Preventing and Responding
16. Solving Homicide / Wendy Regoeczi and John Jarvis
17. Focused Deterrence, Public Health, and Effective Homicide Prevention / Anthony A. Braga
Conclusion: The Future of Homicide Research / Karen F. Parker and Richard Stansfield
Contributors
Index