... was conducted within a qualitative-phenomenological framework, using a purposeful sample of therapist-patient dyads including 17 patients and 14 therapists (total 31 participants). The patients were all men, hospitalized in several psychiatric hospitals after having committed murder while in a psychotic state...

...Molly Minkler; Matt DeLisi; James Marquart; Nicholas Scurich Purpose This study aims to use a novel data set of 636 murderers sentenced to death in California to investigate homicide offenses that are committed but not prosecuted or officially solved, a concept known as the dark figure of crime...

... 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Offending Homicide Criminal psychology Homicide circumplex Murder Psychological profile Homicide is the apex of criminal offending, the only form of antisocial behavior...

... 2015 Homicide Violence Homicidal behaviour Homicide research Murder Homicide, considered to be the most serious of all crimes, can be lawful or unlawful and it covers the offences of murder, manslaughter and infanticide (Office for National Statistics, 2014). Criminal or unlawful...

... understandings into serial murder, which are appreciative of both the psychological characteristics of the individual offender and their location in the broader social and historical context. Micro analysis would now label Cotton a psychopath, but we need to broaden the analysis and to consider macro questions...