Charlotte Harris Investigating homicide investigation in France

Female homicide offenders referred for pre-trial psychiatric examination: a descriptive study.

Homicide by women has attracted serious attention from a variety of professionals including psychiatrists, lawyers, and criminologists. Although a survey of the literature suggests that homicide usually results from a single impulsive act by women who are reacting to overwhelming interpersonal conflict within the family, I several investigators have postulated that homicidal women suffer from s...

Global estimates of homicide risk related to intimate partner violence.

Spot the Difference. Comparing Current and Historic Homicide Investigation in the Uk

Homicide investigations attract the highest levels of expectation as investigative failure has a significant and lasting impact upon victim families, investigators and wider society. By focusing upon ‘current’ homicides, present UK Investigative resourcing and methodology arguably is in danger of failing to recognize both the risks and potential presented by unresolved (cold) ‘historic’ homicid...

A Multi-Method Examination of Homicide Investigations on Case Outcomes

A MULTI-METHOD EXAMINIATION OF HOMICIDE INVESTIONATIONS ON CASE OUTCOMES By SHILA RENÉ HAWK December 1, 2015 Committee Chair: Dr. Dean Dabney Major Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology Approximately a third of homicide cases go unsolved each year. Research focused on understanding what affects homicide clearance rates is often methodologically underdeveloped and has produced mixed findi...

Reconsidering evolved sex differences in jealousy: comment on Harris (2003).

In a recent article, Harris (2003) concluded that the data do not support the existence of evolved sex differences in jealousy. Harris' review correctly identifies fatal flaws in three lines of evidence (spousal abuse, homicide, morbid jealousy), but her criticism of two other lines of evidence (self-report responses, psychophysiological measures) is based, in part, on a mischaracterization of ...