Homicide Research Working Group: An Interdisciplinary and International Organization

1998 HRWG Preliminary Meeting Agenda

BRIDGING THE GAPS: COLLABORATIONS ON LETHAL VIOLENCE RESEARCH,
THEORY, AND PREVENTION POLICY

ANNUAL MEETING / INTENSIVE WORKSHOP OF THE
HOMICIDE RESEARCH WORKING GROUP
WEDNESDAY JUNE 10, 1998 - SATURDAY JUNE 13, 1998
ICPSR, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10

6:30-9:00 PM
OPENING RECEPTION
Michigan Union, University Club
Get Acquainted
Introductory Conversation: Youth Violence in Schools,
by Kathleen Heide, University of South Florida

THURSDAY, JUNE 11

8:15-8:45 AM
OPENING INTRODUCTION, AGENDA REVIEW
Michigan Union, 2nd Floor - Pendleton Room

8:45-9:45 AM
SESSION 1: ESSENTIALS OF VIOLENCE SURVEILLANCE DATA
Michigan Union, 2nd Floor - Pendleton Room
Organizer: Rebecca Block, Illnois Criminal Justice Information Authority

Session Questions: What is the definition of violence surveillance data? What data sources are available? What are their advantages and limitations? How does someone go about using them, and what does a potential user need to know to avoid misuse or misinterpretation? What new data sources are on the horizon?

ESSENTIALS OF VIOLENCE SURVEILLANCE DATA, PART 1:
Briefings on two major sources of violence surveillance data: public health injury surveillance data and the National Crime Victimization Survey

8:45-9:45 AM
"Injury Surveillance Using Data from the National Center for Health Statistics"
Lois Fingerhut, CDC, National Center for Health Statistics

9:45-10:00 AM
BREAK

10:00-11:00 AM
"Violence Surveillance Data in the National Crime Victimization Survey"
Mike Rand, Bureau of Justice Statistics

11:00 AM-12:00 PM
ESSENTIALS OF VIOLENCE SURVEILLANCE DATA, PART 2:
New Information on the Supplemental Homicide Reports

"An Evaluation of the Completeness and Accuracy of SHR Data on Intimate Partner Homicides in Massachusetts"
Linda Langford, Harvard School of Public Health, Nancy Issac, Northeastern University School of Law, and Stacey Kabat, Peace at Home

"An Evaluation of the Completeness and Accuracy of SHR Data in Chicago, 1993 and 1994"
Thomas D. Patterson, Daniel Dick, and Carolyn Rebecca Block, Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority

Discussion by HRWG participants, led by Margo Wilson, McMaster University

12:00-2:00 PM
BUSINESS MEETING LUNCH
Michigan Union, 1st Floor - Anderson Room
Luncheon is provided as part of registration fee.

2:00-3:15 PM
ESSENTIALS OF VIOLENCE SURVEILLANCE DATA, PART 3:
Violence surveillance data on the horizon: the current status of development of firearm surveillance data systems

"Developing Firearm Surveillance Data Systems"
Chair: Joe Vince, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms/CGAB

"Combining Public Health and Public Safety Databases to Track Firearm Trafficking"
Glenn Pierce, Northeastern University

"Combining Public Health and Public Safety Data to Track Firearm Availability"
John Freeman, Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority

"The Surveillance Value of 'Bad' Data: Using Obliterated Serial Number Data in a Firearm Surveillance System
Bill Sherlock and Dave Krieghbaum, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms/NTC/CGAB

Steven Hargarten, Medical College of Wisconsin

Discussion by HRWG participants, led by Dick Block, Loyola University

3:15-4:15 PM
POSTER SESSION

Michigan Union, 1st Floor - Pond Room:

Orest Fedorowycz, Statistics Canada
"Canadian Center for Justice Statistics: Publications and Reports"

Tom Petee, Auburn University
"Situational Factors Related to Public Mass Murder Incidents: 1965-1998"

Robert Smith and Susan Avila, Cook County Hospital
"The Effect of Gun Violence on a Large Urban Trauma System"

Michael Goodman and David Cowan, Exponent Health Group, Steven Lamm, Consultants in Epidemiology and Occupational Health
"Case-Control Methodology in Investigating Unexplained Hospital Deaths"

John May and Khalid Pitts, D.C. Central Detention Facility Health Services
"Gun Identification by Inmates"

Khalid Pitts and John May, D.C. Central Detention Facility Health Services
"Circumstances of Gunshot Wounds Among Inmates"

Derik Paulsen and Victoria Brewer, Sam Houston State University
"Regional Variations in Spousal Sex-Ratio of Killings"

Margo Wilson and Martin Daly, McMaster University
"Space-Time Clustering of Chicago Homicides"

Candice Skrapec, California State University/Fresno
"Serial Murder and Phenomenological Method: Asking Different Questions"

Steven Stack, Wayne State University
"Publicized Executions and the Incidence of Homicide: Methodological Sources of Inconsistent Findings"

Michigan Union, 1st Floor - Sofia B. Jones Room:

Lois Fingerhut, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NCHS
"Injury Surveillance Using Data from the National Center for Health Statistics"

Mike Rand, Bureau of Justice Statistics
"Available Data from the National Crime Victimization Survey"

William Sherlock and Dave Krieghbaum, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
"Project Facelift: Restoration of Obilerated Serial Numbers Project"

Joseph Vince and Gerald Nunziato, Burea of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
"Project LEAD Demonstration"

John Freeman, Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority
"Multiple Firearm Purchases and Firearm Crime in Chicago"

4:15-5:30 PM
USE OF TECHNOLOGY TO IDENTIFY ILLEGAL FIREARMS TRAFFICKERS (includes break)

Yari Yacobi, National Institute of Science and Technology
Paul K. Matthais, Polaris Imaging
Sponsored by Innovations in Government Award, granted to Joe Vince, ATF

THURSDAY EVENING: ORGANIZE DINNER GROUPS - ON YOUR OWN

FRIDAY, JUNE 12

8:45-10:00 AM
SESSION 2: TRENDS IN CRIME: PROJECTIONS FOR THE FUTURE
Michigan Union, 2nd Floor - Pendleton Room

Session Question: Will crime be going up or down? Which types of crime?
Organizers: John Jarvis, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Alan Abrahamse, RAND Corporation

Panelists:

"Cohort Survival Projections of Homicide Victimization: Projection Rates, A Work-In-Progress"
Alan Abrahamse, RAND Corporation

John Jarvis, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Don Faggiani, Virginia Statistical Analysis Center

"Decreasing Violent Gun Crimes in New York City: A Result of Vigorous Enforcement Efforts, Other Variables, Or Both?"
Steve Roth, Division of Criminal Justice Services, State of New York

"Lessons from 1947-1996 Homicide Trends"
Thomas Marvell, Justec Research

10:00-10:15 AM
BREAK

10:15 AM-12:00 PM
SESSION 2: TRENDS IN CRIME, CONTINUED
Discussion

12:00-2:00 PM
LUNCH - ON YOUR OWN

2:00 PM-3:15 PM
SESSION 3: COLLABORATIONS AMONG ACADEMICS, PRACTITIONERS, AND COMMUNITY
Michigan Union, 2nd Floor - Pendleton Room

Organizer: Richard Block

Panelists:

"The SECURE Program: Safety Enhanced Communities Utilizing Resident Endeavors" Richard Block, David Katz, and Laura Herrin, Loyola University

"Youth, Firearms and Violence in Atlanta: A Problem-Solving Approach"
Authur L. Kellerman, Dawana Fugua-Whitley, Peter Ash and John Carter, Emory University

"A Content Analysis of the Media Portrayal of Child Abuse in Two Australian Newspapers"
Ania Wilczynski, University of New South Wales

"Partners and Strategies in Reducing Youth Violence"
Kathleeen Heide, University of South Florida

3:15-3:30 PM
BREAK

3:30-5:00 PM
SESSION 3: COLLABORATIONS CONTINUED
Discussion

FRIDAY EVENING: DINNER ON YOUR OWN

SATURDAY, JUNE 13

8:45-10:00 AM
SECOND BUSINESS MEETING
Michigan Union, 2nd Floor - Pendleton Room

Unfinished Business, Final Issues

10:00-10:15 AM
BREAK

10:15 AM-12:30 PM
SESSION 4: INTEGRATION: THEORETICAL CONNECTIONS
Michigan Union, 2nd Floor - Pendleton Room

Session Question: How does what we have heard so far inform theory?

Organizer: Lin Huff-Corzine, University of Central Florida

Panelists:

One organizer or designee from each of the previous panels to help lead discussion
This is our chance to integrate what we have learned at the meeting

12:30 PM
MEETING ENDS: FINAL COMMENTS

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