Kyle A. Burgason, Mark Ruelas, Thomas T. Zawisza

Homicide Case Studies (eBook, ePUB)

Real World Assessment and Decision-making

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Homicide Case Studies is a first-of-its-kind text offering readers more than 30 case studies drawn from real-world homicide cases that include the often-overlooked context and complexities faced by victims, offenders, law enforcement, attorneys, jurors, and correctional personnel.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000516067
• Artikelnr.: 62946385

Autorenporträt

Kyle A. Burgason is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of Graduate Education in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Iowa State University. His research interests include policing, ethics in criminal justice, race and crime, criminological theory, structural and cultural context of violent crime and victimization, capital punishment, and optimal foraging theory's applications to crime. His recent work has appeared in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Crime Prevention and Community Safety, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Innovative Higher Education, SN Social Sciences, and International Journal of Law and Psychiatry.

Mark Ruelas is currently a PhD student in Sociology and Criminal Justice at Iowa State University. He retired from law enforcement in Southern California after serving for 25 years. Mark earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from California State University, Bakersfield, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California, Irvine. He is a graduate of the Sherman Block Supervisory Leadership Institute. Mark is a Marine Corps veteran and was awarded the Medal of Valor at his agency.

Thomas T. Zawisza is an Assistant Professor at Lasell University. His main research interests include using eye-tracking technology as a medium to study burglar target selection, investigating distance and direction of crime and victimization, and how non-disastrous natural phenomena affect crime patterns, such as the relationship between weather patterns and crime and solar eclipses and calls for service. His most recent works appeared in the Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, Crime Prevention and Community Safety, and the Journal of Contemporary Criminology.

Inhaltsangabe

Causes and Correlates: An Introduction 1. Types of Homicide 2. Homicide
Investigations and Interrogations 3. Juvenile Homicide 4. Legal Homicide
and Wrongful Deaths 5. Courts, Correction, and Homicide 6. Current Issues
in Homicide 7. Lessons Learned