South Africa in grip of strangulation spate / EurekAlert, 20 October 2008
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-10/bc-sai101608.php
"Murder of women by strangulation is a serious problem in South Africa. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Public Health compared four South African cities for the period 2001 to 2005, and report information about the prevalence and timing of attacks, and give details about the victims."

[USA] When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2006 Homicide Data: Females Murdered by Males in Single Victim/Single Offender Incidents / Violence Policy Center, September 2008
PDF - http://www.vpc.org/studies/wmmw2008.pdf

Paradise lost - violent crime in the Caribbean
Jane's Intelligence Review, 23 June 2008
http://jir.janes.com/
"The Caribbean's image as a holiday paradise is belied by rising rates of violent crime across the region. Data published by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the World Bank in March 2007 gives an average murder rate of 30 people per 100,000, higher than any other region in the world."
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[USA] Researchers study hidden homicide trend / Eureka Alert, 26 June 2008
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-06/jhub-rsh062608.php
Tim Parsons
"Gun-related homicide among young men rose sharply in the United States in recent years even though the nation's overall homicide rate remained flat, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Between 1999 and 2005, homicide involving firearms increased 31 percent among black men ages 25 to 44 and 12 percent among white men of the same age. The study is published in Online First edition of the Journal of Urban Health."
PDF - http://www.springerlink.com/content/954h222454814u5w/fulltext.pdf

Drinking binge which ended in murder / BBC, 20 June 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7463525.stm
Chris Summers
"Two under-age drinkers - one just 13 - have been jailed for sexually assaulting and killing a 24-year-old woman in Essex in a case that the local MP has described as "a savage indictment of Britain's binge-drinking culture"."

The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness: Lessons for Mental Health Care in Scotland / University of Manchester, 16 June 2008
Summary report
PDF - http://www.medicine.manchester.ac.uk/suicideprevention/nci/Useful/scotland_summary_report.pdf
Full report
PDF - http://www.medicine.manchester.ac.uk/suicideprevention/nci/Useful/scotland_full_report.pdf

Firearm suicide and homicide rates associated with level of background check / Eurekalert.org, 3 June 2008
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-06/mcow-fsa060308.php
"States that perform local-level background checks for firearms purchases are more effective in reducing firearm suicide and homicide rates than states that rely only on a federal-level background check, according to a new study by researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee"

American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States / Violence Policy Center, April 2008
http://www.vpc.org/studies/amroul2008.pdf
"At least 554 Americans died in murder-suicides during the first six months of 2007 with the vast majority (88.5 percent) involving a firearm, according to the third edition of the Violence Policy Center’s (VPC) study American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States."

A Chilling glimpse inside the minds of dangerous criminals / EurekAlert, 21 April 2008
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/pb-acg042108.php
"Expert examines the disturbing psychology behind serial killers and sadistic murders."

Hot-headed murders / New Statesman, 3 April 2008
http://www.newstatesman.com/200804030023
Darcus Howe
"Few murders are committed for financial gain. Hardly any are conflicts over the spoils of drug sales or robberies. They are usually committed over some petty argument."

Murder, Manslaughter and Infanticide: An EasyRead report on plans to make changes to the law about killing people / Law Commission, 17 March 2008
PDF - http://www.lawcom.gov.uk/docs/lc304_easyread_web.pdf
"This is an easy-read version of a Law Commission report on reforming the laws of homicide, including murder, manslaughter and infanticide."

Distinguishing Juvenile Homicide From Violent Juvenile Offending
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 52, No. 2, 158-174 (2008)
http://ijo.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/52/2/158?rss=1
Frank DiCataldo ; Meghan Everett
"Juvenile homicide is a social problem that has remained a central focus within juvenile justice research in recent years. Research has attempted to conceptualise adolescent murderers as a clinical category that can be reliably distinguished from their nonhomicidal counterparts. This study examined 33 adolescents adjudicated delinquent or awaiting trial for murder and 38 adolescents who committed violent, nonhomicidal offences to determine whether the two groups differed significantly on family history, early development, delinquency history, mental health, and weapon possession variables. Two key factors did distinguish the homicide group: These adolescents endorsed the greater availability of guns and substance abuse at the time of their commitment offences. The significance of this finding is discussed, and the implications for risk management and policy are reviewed."
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[Netherlands] Neighborhood Characteristics and Individual Homicide Risks: Effects of Social Cohesion, Confidence in the Police, and Socioeconomic Disadvantage
Homicide Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1, 90-116 (2008)
http://hsx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/12/1/90
Paul Nieuwbeerta ; Patricia L. McCall ; Henk Elffers ; Karin Wittebrood
"This study tests hypotheses on the relationship between characteristics of neighbourhoods in the Netherlands (their socioeconomic disadvantage, social cohesion, and residents' confidence in the police) and the likelihood of homicide victimisation."
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Homicides, Firearm Offences and Intimate Violence 2006/07: (Supplementary Volume 2 to Crime in England and Wales 2006/07) / RDS, 31 January 2008
PDF - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/hosb0308.pdf
David Povey (Ed.), Kathryn Coleman, Peter Kaiza, Jacqueline Hoare and Krista Jansson
Home Office Statistical Bulletin 03/08

[Scotland] Call to set up fund to help clean houses after murders / Herald, 4 January 2008
http://digbig.com/4weyr
KEVIN SCHOFIELD
"A special fund should be set up to help crime victims with the cost of cleaning up their home after a murder has taken place."

An Examination of serial murder in Australia / Australian Institute of Criminology, December 2007
PDF - http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi2/tandi346.pdf
Jenny Mouzos and David West
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Criminal Recidivism in Sexual Homicide Perpetrators
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 52, No. 1, 5-20 (2008)
http://ijo.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/52/1/5?rss=1
Andreas Hill ; Niels Habermann ; Dietrich Klusmann ; Wolfgang Berner ; Peer Briken
"Increased recidivism with any violent reoffence was associated with age-related factors: young age at first sexual offence, at homicide, and at release and duration of detention. The impacts of the results for risk assessment, relapse prevention, and supervision are discussed."
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[USA] Operationalizing risk: The influence of measurement choice on the prevalence and correlates of prison violence among incarcerated murderers
Journal of Criminal Justice, Volume 35, Issue 5, September-October 2007, Pages 546-555
http://digbig.com/4weph
Jon R. Sorensen and Mark D. Cunningham
"A retrospective review was performed on the disciplinary records of 1,659 convicted murderers who had been admitted to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice between February 2001 and November 2003. The findings suggest that the choice of measure used when operationalisating prison violence is crucial in determining baselines, but may have a more limited effect on identifying correlates and predicting outcomes."
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[Scotland] Statistics on crimes of homicide recorded by the police in 2006-07 / Scottish Parliament, 18 December 2007
PDF - http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/207004/0054998.pdf

Weapons Used by Juveniles and Adult Offenders in U.S. Parricide Cases
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Vol. 22, No. 11, 1400-1414 (2007)
http://jiv.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/22/11/1400
Kathleen M. Heide ; Thomas A. Petee
"In recent decades, attention has focused on juveniles who kill their parents. Research has indicated that increases in juvenile homicide have been associated with the availability of firearms, but little is known about the weapons juveniles use to kill their parents and whether their weapon usage is different from that of adult children who kill their parents."
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