Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Rethinking Homicide -- CHAPTER ONE Introduction: Studying Homicide Situations -- Histories of Violent People and Dangerous Times -- Macro-Quantitative Approaches -- Subgroup Differences in Homicide Risks and Rates -- Homicide Situations as the Unit of Analysis -- Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Homicide Situations -- Structural Elements Underlying Homicide Situations -- Data Sources for Studying Homicide -- Outline of the Current Study -- CHAPTER TWO Theoretical Development -- Definitions of the Situation -- Physical Properties of Dangerous Times and Places -- Circumstances, Motives, and Homicide "Syndromes" -- Integrated or Combinatorial Approaches -- Lofland's Theory of Closure on Deviant Acts -- Criminal Opportunity Theories -- The Crime Event Perspective -- The Current Approach to the Study of Homicide Situations -- Macro- and Micro-Theories of Change in Homicide Situations -- Crime and the American Dream -- Declines in the Legitimacy of Social Institutions -- Changes in Routine Activities and Lifestyles -- Summary -- CHAPTER THREE Data and Methodology for Studying Homicide Situations -- Data Sources for Studying Homicide -- Newspaper Accounts -- Court Records -- Mortality Records -- Police Records -- Data Sources in the Present Study -- Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR) -- Narrative Accounts -- Analytic Approaches for Studying Homicide Situations -- The "Main Effects" Statistical Model -- Statistical Models with Interaction Effects -- Spatial Analytic Procedures and Typologies -- Qualitative Approaches -- Qualitative Comparative Analysis -- The Logic of QCA -- Previous Applications of QCA -- Methodological Issues in QCA -- An Illustration of QCA -- Summary.

CHAPTER FOUR The Empirical Distribution of Homicide -- Historical Trends in Homicide -- Stability and Change in the Prevalence of Homicides -- Homicide Trends in England -- Homicide Trends in American History -- Homicide in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century -- Homicide in the Nineteenth Century -- Homicide in the Twentieth Century -- Offender, Victim, and Offense Elements in Homicide over Time -- Offender Characteristics -- Victim Characteristics -- Offense Elements -- Homicide Situations in SHR Data, 1976-98 -- The Diversity of Homicide Situations -- QCA and the Analysis of Homicide Situations -- The Prevalence of Unique and Common Homicide Situations over Time -- The Nature of the Unique and Common Homicide Situations over Time -- Common Situational Contexts over Time -- Unique Homicide Situations in the 1970s and 1980s -- Unique Homicide Situations in the 1990s -- Theoretical Accounts of the Findings -- Major Findings -- Theoretical Accounts -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER FIVE Instrumental and Expressive Motives in Homicide Situations -- Instrumental and Expressive Crimes -- The Structure of Motive-Based Homicide Situations -- Data and Measurement -- Results of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) -- Comparisons between Expressive and Instrumental Homicides -- The Nature of Unique and Common Profiles -- Changes over Time in the Nature of Unique Profiles -- Internal Consistency within Subsets of Instrumental and Expressive Homicides -- Narrative Accounts of Expressive and Instrumental Homicides -- Confrontational Disputes and Character Contests -- Defenses of "Significant Others" -- Instrumental Violence and Felony-Type Homicide Situations -- Homicides in Street Muggings and Personal Robberies -- Robbery-Homicides of Store Owners and Businesses -- Drug-Related Robberies -- Summary of Findings -- Conclusions and Implications.

CHAPTER SIX Gender Differences in the Structure of Homicide Situations -- Patterns of Homicide by Male and Female Offenders -- Theoretical Perspectives -- Theories of Homicide Offending -- Theories of the Structure of Homicide Situations -- Research Questions -- Methods and Analysis -- Results -- Univariate Distributions -- Qualitative Comparative Analysis -- Gender Differences in the Structure of Homicide Situations -- Stability and Change over Time in Male and Female Homicide Situations -- Narrative Descriptions of Homicide Situations -- Felony-Homicide Situations -- Domestic Violence Situations -- Husband Killing Wife -- Wife Killing Husband -- Husband Killing Wife -- Wife Killing Husband -- Conclusions and Implications -- CHAPTER SEVEN Change and Stability in the Structure of Youth Homicide -- Trends and Correlates of Youth Homicide -- Research Questions -- Methods and Analysis -- Results -- Univariate Trends over Time -- Dominant Homicide Situations for Juvenile and Adult Offenders -- Stability and Change in Age Differences in Homicide Situations over Time -- The Situational Context of Particular Types of Youth Homicide -- Differences between Older and Younger Juvenile Offenders -- The Juvenile "Superpredator" -- Homicide Narratives for Juvenile Offenders -- Summary of Findings -- Conclusions and Implications -- CHAPTER EIGHT Racial Differences in Homicide Situations -- Trends in Race-Specific Homicide Rates over Time -- Theory and Method in Homicide Research -- Racial Differences in Homicide Offending -- Changes in the Nature of Homicide over Time -- Homicides among Hispanics -- The Analysis of Homicide Situations -- Research Questions -- Data Description and Methods -- Results -- Black versus White Offenders -- Comparative Analysis of Hispanic Homicides -- Hispanic versus White Offenders -- Hispanic versus Black Offenders.

Homicide Narratives -- Intimate Partner Homicides -- Confrontational Homicides -- Summary of Findings -- Conclusions and Implications -- CHAPTER NINE Victim-Offender Relationships -- Types of Victim-Offender Relationships -- The Disaggregation of Homicide by Victim-Offender Relationship -- Trends in the Victim-Offender Relationship over Time -- Data and Measurement -- Results of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) -- Intimate/Family, Friend/Acquaintance, and Stranger Homicides -- Intimate Partner versus Other Family Homicides -- Trends in Intimate Partner Homicides over Time -- Acquaintance versus Stranger Homicides -- Narrative Accounts of Family and Stranger Homicides -- Family Homicides -- Stranger Homicides -- Summary of Findings -- Conclusions and Implications -- CHAPTER TEN Conclusions and Implications -- Major Findings -- Dispelling Myths and Misconceptions -- Homicide as a Simple or Complex Event -- Main Effects or Context-Specific Effects -- Stability or Change in Homicide Situations over Time -- Common or Unique Signatures -- Theoretical Advances -- Predictive Value of Existing Theories -- Routine Activities and Criminal Opportunity Theory -- Strain Theory -- Social Disorganization Theory -- Subculture of Violence Theory -- Rational Choice Theories -- The Value of Conjunctive Thinking -- Public Policy Issues and Violence Intervention -- Issues of Gender, Class, and Race -- Guns and Lethal Violence -- Drug-Related Homicides -- The Focus on Rare Events -- Limitations and Future Directions -- Lethal versus Nonlethal Violence -- Qualitative Comparative Analysis -- Cross-Cultural Comparisons -- Conclusion -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

A micro-historical analysis of the nature of change and stability in homicide situations over time.

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