Journal article
Advancing the prediction and prevention of murder-suicide
Journal of aggression, conflict and peace research, v 10(3), 223
09 Jul 2018
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Abstract
Purpose The phenomenon of murder-suicide (aka. homicide-suicide) makes a sizeable impact on current public perceptions and policies regarding mental illness and risk for violence. However, within the past 25 years, our understanding of murder-suicide has remained relatively stable, and so has our relative inability to reliably predict and prevent it. The purpose of this paper is to propose pathways for furthering a cogent understanding of murder-suicide that may inform specific predictive and preventative practices.
Design/methodology/approach Research literature regarding empirical and theoretical positions in the fields of murder-suicide, homicide, and suicide are reviewed and discussed.
Findings While murder-suicide has many similarities to both homicide and suicide, no current theories of either alone have been successful in fully incorporating the phenomenon of murder-suicide. Theories specific to murder-suicide as a unique form of violence are in need of further research.
Originality/value Developing and empirically testing theories of murder-suicide may lead to a vast and needed improvement of our understanding, prediction, and prevention of these tragedies.
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- Title
- Advancing the prediction and prevention of murder-suicide
- Creators
- Matthew C. Podlogar - Florida State UniversityAnna R. Gai - Florida State UniversityMatthew Schneider - Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USAChristopher R. Hagan - University of Wisconsin–Eau ClaireThomas E. Joiner - Florida State University
- Publication Details
- Journal of aggression, conflict and peace research, v 10(3), 223
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing
- Number of pages
- 12
- Grant note
- W81XWH-10-2-0181 / Military Suicide Research Consortium - Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Decision Sciences (and Management Information Systems)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000437304000007
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85039931182
- Other Identifier
- 991021852204804721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Criminology & Penology