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Papers

(The median citation count of Homicide Studies is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Business of Murder: Business Types and the Moderating Effects of Neighborhood Context on Homicide	23
Public Mass Murder, Suicidality, and the “Final Act Mindset”: A Research Note	22
Strained Masculinity and Mass Shootings: Toward A Theoretically Integrated Approach to Assessing the Gender Gap in Mass Violence	18
Homicide Studies Special Issue on Police Use of Deadly Force	16
Behavioral Profiling in the Golden State Killer Investigation: A Comparative Analysis	16
Corrigendum to “The Relationship Between Stalking, Homicide, and Coercive Control in an Australian Population”	16
Death by Police Shooting in Australia: Understanding Lethal Force Decisions Through a Sequence Analysis of Behavior	12
“Who is Where?” Cold Case Investigation and Collaborations Between Law Enforcement and Academia	9
A New Wave of Mass Shootings? Exploring the Potential Impact of COVID-19	9
Understanding Ethnic Disparities in Lethal Police Incidents in the Netherlands Between 2016 and 2020	8
When DNA Is and Isn’t Magic: A Conjunctive Analysis of How Context Matters in Homicide Investigations	8
The Superstition That Mutilates Children in Africa: Exploring the Scale and Features of Juju-Driven Pedicide in Kenya	7
“I Want That Money Saved for ‘Real’ Victims”: Homicide Detectives’ Perceptions of Victims and Impacts on Advocacy and Services for Loss Survivors	7
Familicide in Canada, 2010 to 2019	6
Framing Fear: An Analysis of the Fear-Based Framing Styles of Serial Homicide News Articles	6
Perpetrator Involvement in Domestic Homicide Reviews in England and Wales	6
Managing the Impacts of Exposure to Trauma on Injury and Violence Research Teams	6
One “Two” Many: An Examination of Solo Perpetrator Versus Team Perpetrator Serial Homicides	6
The Impact of Suspect Race and Precipitating Incident on Community Members’ Assessments of Deadly Force Reasonableness	5
Examining Individual and Aggregate Correlates of Police Killings of People with Mental Illness: A Special Gaze at Race and Ethnicity	5
Driven by Purpose: Exploring Spirituality in Black Mothers’ Coping with Loss of Children to Gun Homicide	5
Homicidal Ideation in a Sample of Capital Murderers: Prevalence, Morbidity, and Associations With Homicide Offending	5
Lethality of Police Shootings and Proximity to Trauma Centers	5
Exploring Research on the Coping Strategies of Black Survivors of Homicide Victims: A Scoping Review	5
Homicide and the Opioid Epidemic: A Longitudinal Analysis	5

The Labor of Survival: Homicide Victims and the Black Women They Leave Behind	5
Deadnamed and Denied Justice: The Role of Deadnaming and Other Factors in Transgender Homicide Clearance	5
PTSD Symptoms and Life Satisfaction of Homicidally Bereaved Individuals: Trial Attendance, Trial-Related Factors, and Perceived Social Support	4
The Influence of the Environment on Officer-Involved Shootings	4
Experiences of Treatment-Seeking Children and Young People Following Parental Intimate Partner Homicide	4
Child Deaths from Lack of Care and Injuries of Undetermined Intent in Ohio, 1959 to 2015: How Many Were Probable Homicides?	4
Intimate Femicide-Suicide in Italy Between 2015 and 2019: A Comparison to Intimate Femicide Without Suicide	3
Exploring the Role of Psycho-Social Factors on the Recidivism of Homicide Offenders	3
Intimate Partner Homicide Prevention Among Latinas: A Qualitative Study of Risk and Protective Factors	3
Addressing Mental Health Needs of Secondary Homicide Survivors through a Social Determinants of Health Framework	3
Understanding More Than 50 Years of Mass Public Shootings as a Function of Routine Activities	3
Editorial Introduction to Homicide Studies Special Issue: Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Homicide	3
Practice Note: Domestic Violence Advocacy and Response to Intimate Partner Homicide in the COVID-19 Era	3
Exploring Gender Bias in Homicide Sentencing: An Empirical Study of Russian Court Decisions Using Text Mining	3
Homicides in England and Wales: The Effects of Victim and Offense Characteristics on Case Clearance	3
The (Mis)utilization of Cues During Deception Detection in 911 Homicide Calls	2
The Relationship Between Stalking, Homicide, and Coercive Control in an Australian Population	2
“You Never Know Who’s Gonna Be Next”: The Role of Community Violence Intervention Workers in Responding to Homicides and Survivor Support	2
Editorial Introduction to Homicide Studies Special Issue: In the Aftermath of Homicide	2
Advancing Understanding of Global Mass Murder: A Comparison of Public Mass Stabbings and Shootings	2
White Violence, Black Victims: The Impact of Political and Economic Competition on Interracial Killings in 21st Century America	2
The Same But Not Equal? How the Homicide Victim’s Age and Gender Influence the Investigator’s Involvement in the Case	2
Changing Patterns of Domestic Homicide During Lockdown: Interrupted Time-Series Analysis in England and Wales	2
Evaluating Canadian Legal Changes in Context: Homicide Investigator Insights	2
COVID-19 and Homicide Special Issue Introduction	2
Viewing Firearm Danger Through the Lens of Police Officers	2
The Effect of COVID-19 on Community-Engaged Homicide Research	2
The Influence of Racial Minorities and Ethnic Heterogeneity in the Estimation of Homicide Rates in the Northeast Region of Brazil: Implications for Social Disorganization Theory in the Global South	2
Responding to Survivors of Intimate Partner Homicide in Black Communities	2