OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Homicide Studies is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The Newsworthiness of Mass Public Shootings: What Factors Impact the Extent of Coverage?	13
Can Victim, Offender, and Situational Characteristics Differentiate Between Lethal and Non-Lethal Incidents of Intimate Partner Violence Occurring Among Adults?	11
The Impact of COVID-19 on Gun Violence Across Census Tracts in NYC	10
Rushing Gunshot Victims to Trauma Care: The Influence of First Responders and the Challenge of the Geography	10
Murder as Importation: An Empirical Study of the Continuity of Homicide Offending From Community to Confinement	10
Preventing Intimate Partner Homicide: The Long Road Ahead	8
A New Wave of Mass Shootings? Exploring the Potential Impact of COVID-19	7
“911 What’s Your Emergency?”: Deception in 911 Homicide and Homicide Staged as Suicide Calls	7
The National Death Index as a Source of Homicide Data: A Methodological Exposition of Promises and Pitfalls for Criminologists	6
A Decade of Police Use of Deadly Force Research (2011–2020)	6
The Father, the Son, and the Abuser: The Portrayal of Male Victims of Intimate Partner Homicide in the News Media	6
Firearm Availability, Homicide, and the Context of Structural Disadvantage	6
Sexually Frustrated Mass Shooters: A Study of Perpetrators, Profiles, Behaviors, and Victims	6
Gender Equality and the Usual Suspects: A Cross-National Study on Female and Male Homicide Victimization	6
From Murder to Imprisonment: Mapping the Flow of Homicide Cases—A Systematic Review	5
Reconsidering Homicide Clearance Research: The Utility of Multifaceted Data Collection Approaches	5
The Parkland Mass Shooting and the Path to Intended Violence: A Case Study of Missed Opportunities and Avenues for Future Prevention	5
Testing the Systemic Model of Social Disorganization Theory in South Korean Neighborhoods: A Latent Class Growth Analysis Approach to Specifying Pathways to Homicide	5
From Homicide to Imprisonment: Mapping and Understanding the Flow of Homicide Cases	5
Survival of the Recidivistic? Revealing Factors Associated with the Criminal Career Length of Multiple Homicide Offenders	5
Trends, Correlates, and Contexts of Robbery-Homicide in South Africa	4
Mass Murder in America: Trends, Characteristics, Explanations, and Policy Response	4
Social Disorganization and Urban Homicide Rates: A Spatial-Temporal Analysis in São Paulo, Brazil 2000 to 2015	4
Criminal Histories of Intimate Partner Homicide Offenders	4
Homicide and the Opioid Epidemic: A Longitudinal Analysis	4

Assessing the Effects of COVID-19-Related Stay-at-Home Orders on Homicide Rates in Selected U.S. Cities	4
The Flow of Murder Cases Through the Criminal Justice System in a Brazilian City	4
Understanding More Than 50 Years of Mass Public Shootings as a Function of Routine Activities	4
Gang Homicide: The Road so Far and a Map for the Future	3
A Link between Psychopathy Affect and Instrumentality in Homicide	3
The Impact of Suspect Race and Precipitating Incident on Community Members’ Assessments of Deadly Force Reasonableness	3
Domestic Homicide Review Committees’ Recommendations and Impacts: A Systematic Review	3
The Influence of the Environment on Officer-Involved Shootings	3
Gun Homicide Research: What We Know and Where We Need to Go	3
Correlates of the Number Shot and Killed in Active Shooter Events	3
Viewing Firearm Danger Through the Lens of Police Officers	3
One “Two” Many: An Examination of Solo Perpetrator Versus Team Perpetrator Serial Homicides	2
Homicidal Physical Violence: An Exploratory Analysis of Relevant Cognitive, Demographic, and Criminological Factors in a Sample of Murderers	2
Two Pink Lines: An Exploratory, Comparative Study of Florida’s Pregnancy-associated and Nonpregnancy-associated Intimate Partner Homicides	2
Getting Away With Murder: Homicide Clearance by Arrest in Chicago and Its Community Areas	2
Spatial Correlates of Gun Deaths in Harris County, Texas	2
Practice Note: Domestic Violence Advocacy and Response to Intimate Partner Homicide in the COVID-19 Era	2
The Effect of Absolute and Relative Deprivation on Homicides in Brazil	2
Homicide or Suicide: How Nudity Factors into This Determination	2
Environmental Factors Influencing Urban Homicide Clearance Rates: A Spatial Analysis of New York City	2
Intimate Femicide-Suicide in Italy Between 2015 and 2019: A Comparison to Intimate Femicide Without Suicide	2
Advancing Understanding of Global Mass Murder: A Comparison of Public Mass Stabbings and Shootings	2
Parsing out the “Hispanic Effect” in Disaggregated Homicide Trends at the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender from 1990 to 2016	2
Ethnocultural Diversity in Homicide Crime Scene Staging	2
Anti-Transgender Ideology, Laws, and Homicide: An Analysis of the Trifecta of Violence	2
Familicide in Canada, 2010 to 2019	2
Rethinking Older Adult Murder Victims: Looking Back at 25 Years of Homicide Studies to Inform Future Research Needs	2
The Effect of COVID-19 on Community-Engaged Homicide Research	1
Shooting and Holding Fire in Police Work: Insights From a Study Informed by the Binder and Scharf Model of Deadly Force Decision-Making	1
White Violence, Black Victims: The Impact of Political and Economic Competition on Interracial Killings in 21st Century America	1
Responding to Survivors of Intimate Partner Homicide in Black Communities	1
Addressing Mental Health Needs of Secondary Homicide Survivors through a Social Determinants of Health Framework	1
Building a Transdisciplinary Team to Prevent Intimate Partner Homicide: A Research Note	1
A Global Lethal Force Monitor: Comparative Opportunities and Challenges	1
A New Classification of Sexual Homicide Offenders: When the Heterogeneity of Types Allows the Detection of Potential Serial Offenders	1
Examining Individual and Aggregate Correlates of Police Killings of People with Mental Illness: A Special Gaze at Race and Ethnicity	1
Juvenile Homicide in the United States: Sizing Up the Problem and Moving Forward	1
Examining the Relationship Between Weapon Type and Relationship Type in American Homicides: A Bayesian Approach	1
Integrating the Literature on Lethal Violence: A Comparison of Mass Murder, Homicide, and Homicide-Suicide	1
The Superstition That Mutilates Children in Africa: Exploring the Scale and Features of Juju-Driven Pedicide in Kenya	1
Homicide in Eight Countries From 1980 to 2000: The Flow From Crimes Committed to Time Served in Prison	1
Death by Police Shooting in Australia: Understanding Lethal Force Decisions Through a Sequence Analysis of Behavior	1
Help-Seeking Barriers for Latinx Victims of Intimate Partner Homicide: Insight From Survivors, Advocates, and Community Practitioners	1
Muddy Waters: Critiquing the Historical Criminology Method in the Investigation of the Smiley Face Murders Theory	1