Homicide Research Working Group: An Interdisciplinary and International Organization

1999 HRWG Meeting Agenda

8th ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE
HOMICIDE RESEARCH WORKING GROUP

FBI ACADEMY, QUANTICO, VIRGINIA
JUNE 27-30, 1999

Sunday, June 27

5:30-7:15: Reception (cash bar) and dinner

7:15-9 p.m.: Opening session: Introductory remarks by Chris Rasche, Convener, and John Jarvis, Local Arrangements Chair (moderator, Candice Skrapec)

Panel on Stalking
(Organizer: Lois Mock)

Pat Tjaden, Center for Policy Research

Brian Vossekuel, Secret Service

Gene Regala, FBI Special Agent

Monday: June 28

8:00-8:30 a.m.: Opening introduction; agenda review

8:30-10:00 a.m.: Session 1A: Papers on methodology of historical studies
(Organizer: Douglas L. Eckberg)

Eckberg: Intro: the 'dark figure' of historic murder and problem of comparing our rates with those of ancestors

Eric Monkkonen: Two-century homicide series: using capture-recapture methods to check estimates in 19th century NYC

Vance McLaughlin: Homicides in Savannah, 1896-1903, data collection

Mary Beth Emmerichs: Getting away with murder?: Homicide and the coroners in 19th century London

9:55-10:05: Coffee break

10:05-11:30: Session 1B: Discussion

11:30-12:30: Lunch/set up poster session

12:30-1:30: Business meeting I / set up poster session

1:30-2:55 p.m.: Session 2A: Papers and discussion on homicides against women
(Organizer: Holly Johnson)

Judith McFarlane, Carolyn Rebecca Block, Gail Rayford Walker, and Christine Ovcharchyn Devitt: When homicide data bases do not answer the questions: Field strategies for locating and interviewing proxies

Linda Langford, Nancy Isaac, and Sandra Adams: Criminal and restraining order histories of intimate partner-related homicide offenders in Massachusetts, 1991-1995

2:55-3:05 a.m.: Coffee break

3:05-5:10: Session 2B: Papers/discussion on homicides against women

Myrna Dawson: Legal reactions to intimate partner homicide: a preliminary look at the role of gender and intimacy

Kathryn E. Moracco, Carol W. Runyan, and John D. Butts: Non-partner femicide: a statewide study of patterns and precursors

Todd K. Shackelford, David M. Buss, and Jay Peters: Wife killing: risk to women as a function of age

5:30-6:30 p.m.: Dinner

6:30-8:00 p.m.: Poster session

8:00-9:30 p.m.: Homicide, Homicide Research, and the News Media -- Littleton and Beyond
(Organizer: Ted Gest, U.S. News & World Report/Criminal Justice Journalists)

Gary Fields, USA Today

Kristan Trugman, Washington Times

Maria Elena Fernandez, Washington Post

Thomas A. Petee

Tuesday, June 29

8:00-10:05 a.m.: Session 3A: Papers and discussion on homicide perpetrators and victims
(Organizer: Allegra Kim)

Harry M. Brownstein, Susan M. Crimmins, Judith A. Ryder, and Barry J. Spunt: Prior involvement with drugs, guns, and illegal activities among young homicide offenders

C. Gabrielle Salfati: The nature of expressiveness and instrumentality in homicide, and its implications for offender profiling

Evelyn M. Kuhn, Carrie L. Nie, Mallory E. O'Brien, Richard L. Withers, and Stephen W. Hargarten: Victim and perpetrator characteristics for youth homicides during 1991-1997

10:05-10:15 a.m.: Coffee break

10:15 a.m.-12:20 p.m.: Session 3B: Papers on homicide victims

Dean G. Rojek: Homicide and drugs

Thomas B. Marvell: State homicide victimization rates: Do regression results differ by sex or race

Donna Rosenberg: Fabricated illness and homicide of children: solving complex medical problems with the help of a computerized database system

12:20-1:45 p.m.: Lunch -- committees formed on Monday meet

1:45-3:15 p.m.: Profiling: FBI Special Agent Jim McNamara

3:15-3:30 p.m.: Coffee break

3:30-5:00 p.m.: Optional FBI demonstrations, tours, etc.; limited to 20-25 attendees per activity.

5:00-6:00 p.m.: Dinner

6:00-8:00 p.m.: Session 4: Gun-related research: papers and research in progress
(Organizer: Paul H. Blackman)

Jay Corzine, Lin K. Huff-Corzine, and Greg Weaver: Using FFL (federal firearms licensee) data for research on lethal violence and gun availability

Jason van Court: Matching death records and homicide records for firearm (and other) intentional deaths

Stephen W. Hargarten, Evelyn M. Kuhn, Carrie L. Nie, Mallory O'Brien, Richard L. Withers, and Garen J. Wintemute: Homicide gun characteristics before and after the 1994 crime bill

Kathleen Heide: School shootings in the United States: a typology of lethal violence

Edward T. Gardner: Towards a practical homicide protocol: investigative considerations for "ordinary" homicides in South Carolina

8:00-9:30 p.m.: Business meeting II

Wednesday, June 30

8:00-9:30 a.m.: Session 5A: Papers and discussion on multiple murder
(Organizer: Thomas A. Petee)

Vanessa Levrier-Leggett: Juvenile and young-adult male perpetrated familicides

Carrie L. Nie, Evelyn M. Kuhn, Mallory E. O'Brien, Richard L. Withers, and Stephen W. Hargarten: Firearm homicide-suicide events in Southeastern Wisconsin, 1991-1997

9:30-9:45 a.m.: Break

9:45-11:30 a.m.: Session 5B:

Thomas A. Petee and Kathy G. Padgett: Offense, offender, and victim characteristics of mass murder incidents in the U.S., 1975-1999

James A. Black: Murder for hire: an exploratory study

11:30-12 pm.: Meeting ends; final comments

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