SOC 2760 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Modus Operandi, Justice Quarterly, Dependent And Independent Variables
6 Jul 2015
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This document includes notes from the following: unit 07 courselink. All required unit readings: decker, scott h. (1993). Exploring victim-offender relationships in homicide: the role of individual and event characteristics. A descriptive study of sexual homicide in canada: Canadians were killed by someone they knew, usually an acquaintance or a family member: confrontational homicides - refer to homicides involving arguments, brawls, and gang killings. They make up at least one-third of all homicides in canada and the united states. o: many of these are male-on-male homicides o quite a few of these cases involved alcohol (a homicide enabler) Less often, drugs (also an enabler and often referred to as drug-related homicides: many of these confrontational homicides involved friends, acquaintances and strangers. Understanding the continuum of victim-offender relationship in homicide: decker used a five-category classification o o. Strangers, acquaintances, friends, relatives and those who are romantically linked. Argues for the importance of finer relationships distinctions in the study of homicide.
