Web resource:	http://www.aic.gov.au/documents/D/5/B/%7BD5B0484B-095F-43AD-86B9-48018A78B229%7Dfull_report.pdf
Type:	Non-Fiction
Title:	Homicidal encounters : a study of homicide in Australia 1989-1999Research and Public Policy Series
Authors:	Mouzos, Jenny
Keywords:	Homicide;Statistics
Year:	2000
Publisher:	Australian Institute of Criminology
Citation:	No. 28
Notes:	This report is an extensive examination of a decade of homicide in Australia. It provides a statistical overview of the four essential components of homicide-incident, victim, offender, and victim-offender relationships. It also examines the occurrence of homicide in the course of other crime, as well as mass and serial murder. The report then examines homicidal encounters experienced in Australia, including the more common forms of lethal violence involving intimate partners and violence between men, as well as some of the less common forms of homicide such as women and children who kill, and children and the elderly as victims of homicide.
Contents:	Executive summary Introduction Homicide in Australia: a brief overview - Incident characteristics Victim characteristics Offender characteristics Victim-offender relationships Homicide in the course of other crime Mass and serial murders in Australia Homicidal encounters: Males killing males Homicidal intimates Homicidal women The killing of children Homicidal children Elderly homicide Concluding discussion: Preventing homicidal encounters - directions for the new millennium References.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/11426
ISBN:	9780642241658
Physical description:	xxiv, 220 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Appears in Collections:	Books

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