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Examining the Racial Dynamic of the Victim-offender Dyad in Homicide-suicide: Does Intraracial Homicide Encourage Perpetrator Suicide?
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency ( IF 3.364 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 , DOI: 10.1177/0022427820979620
Gregory M. Zimmerman 1 , Emma E. Fridel 2 , Madison Gerdes 1
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Objectives:

Compared to homicide-only, homicide-suicide is understudied in the criminological literature. This study investigates the victim-offender relationship—one of the most well-established correlates of homicide-suicide—from a new angle. In addition to examining the familiarity/closeness of the victim-offender relationship, this study investigates whether the racial composition (interracial versus intraracial) of the victim-offender dyad impacts the likelihood of committing suicide following homicide.

Method:

This study uses data on 26,858 homicide and homicide-suicide cases distributed across 3,178 places and 45 U.S. states from the National Violent Death Reporting System appended to information from the American Community Survey. Hierarchical logistic regression models examine the independent and joint contribution of: (1) the familiarity/closeness of the victim-offender relationship; and (2) the racial composition of the victim-offender dyad on homicide-suicide.

Results:

Killing familiar and same-race victims independently increase the odds of suicide following homicide; additionally, the odds of suicide following homicide are highest for offenders with both familiar and same-race victims.

Conclusions:

The findings suggest that homicide-suicide research should account for different aspects of the victim-offender relationship. Additionally, the importance of race/ethnicity extends to even the rarest of crimes.



中文翻译:

检查自杀凶杀案中被害人二人的种族动态:种族间的凶杀是否会鼓励肇事者自杀?

目标:

与单纯杀人罪相比,犯罪学文献对杀人自杀的研究不足。这项研究从一个新的角度研究了受害者与罪犯之间的关系-这是最完善的凶杀自杀关联之一。除了研究受害者与犯罪者之间关系的亲密/亲密程度之外,本研究还调查了受害者与犯罪者二元组的种族构成(种族间或种族内)是否会影响凶杀后自杀的可能性。

方法:

这项研究使用的数据来自全国暴力死亡报告系统,分布在3178个地方和美国45个州的26,858起凶杀和自杀自杀案件中,并附有美国社区调查的信息。分层逻辑回归模型检验了以下因素的独立和共同作用:(1)受害者与罪犯之间关系的熟悉/亲密程度;(2)凶杀自杀罪犯的种族组成。

结果:

独立杀害熟悉和同种族的受害者会增加凶杀后自杀的几率;此外,对于既有熟人又有同种种族的受害者,凶杀后自杀的几率最高。

结论:

研究结果表明,凶杀-自杀研究应说明受害者与犯罪者之间关系的不同方面。此外,种族/民族的重要性甚至扩展到了最罕见的犯罪。

更新日期:2021-01-08
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