Past HRWG Meetings

• 2007 Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN
• 2006 Annual Meeting in Richmond, VA
• 2005 Annual Meeting in Richmond, VA
• 2005 Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL
• 2004 Annual Meeting in Ann Arbor, MI
• 2003 Annual Meeting in Sacramento, CA
• 2002 Annual Meeting in St. Louis, MO
• 2001 Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL
• 2000 Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL
• 1999 Annual Meeting in Quantico, VA
• 1998 Annual Meeting in Ann Arbor, MI
• 1997 Annual Meeting in Shepherdstown, WV
• 1996 Annual Meeting in Santa Monica, CA
• 1995 Annual Meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• 1994 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA
• 1993 Annual Meeting in Quantico, VA
• 1992 Annual Meeting in Ann Arbor, MI
• 1991 Charter Workshop

The 2007 Annual Meeting

The 2007 Meeting was held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the offices of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension . The theme was "Homicide Studies: Ten Years After Its Inception." The agenda will be available shortly in PDF.

The 2006 Annual Meeting

The 2006 Meeting was hosted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Virginia Commonwealth University. The theme was "Connecting Research to Practice: New Directions in the Study of Homicide and Violence." The agenda will be available shortly in PDF.

The 2005 Annual Meeting

The 2005 annual meeting was hosted by the University of Central Florida and the University of South Florida. The theme was "Homicide Research: Past, Present and Future." The agenda (PDF 28K) provides information about the presentations and activities at this meeting.

The 2004 Annual Meeting

The 2004 annual meeting was hosted by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data from June 3 to June 6, 2004. The theme was linking data to practice in homicide/violence prevention. The agenda (PDF 86K) provides information about the presentations and activities at this meeting.

The 2003 Annual Meeting

The 2003 annual meeting was hosted by the Epidemiology and Prevention for Injury Control Branch, California Department of Health Services from June 5 to June 8, 2003. The theme was on public health and criminal justice approaches to homicide research. The agenda (PDF 108K) provides information about the presentations and activities at this meeting.

The 2002 Annual Meeting

The 2002 annual meeting was hosted by the University of Missouri-St. Louis from May 30 to June 2, 2002. The theme was the relationship between lethal and non-lethal violence. The agenda (PDF 148K) provides information about the presentations and activities at this meeting.

The 2001 Annual Meeting

The 2001 annual meeting was held at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL from June 22 to June 25, 2001. The agenda provides information about the presentations and activities at this meeting, which focused on new directions in homicide research. See also a photo gallery of Saturday's Social Hour and Monday's "Pig Dig."

The 2000 Annual Meeting

The 2000 annual meeting was held at Loyola University - Water Tower Campus in Chicago, IL from June 24 to June 27, 2000. The theme was the diversity of homicide. The agenda and the proceedings provide information about the presentations and activities at this meeting.

The 1999 Annual Meeting

The 1999 annual meeting was held from June 27 to June 30, 1999, at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, sponsored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The meeting focused on the varieties of homicide. The agenda and the proceedings provide information about the presentations and activities from the Quantico meeting.

The 1998 Annual Meeting

The 1998 annual meeting was held from June 10 to June 13, 1998, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, sponsored by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). The meeting was attended by 58 members. The overall theme of the meeting was bridging the gaps through collaborations on lethal violence research, theory, and prevention policy. The agenda and the proceedings provide information about the presentations and activities from the Ann Arbor meeting.

The 1997 Annual Meeting

The 1997 annual meeting was held from June 8 to June 11, 1997, in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, sponsored by the Firearms Division Tracing Center of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The meeting was attended by 74 members. Overall themes of the meeting focused on the intersection between policy and research. The agenda and the proceedings provide information about the presentations and activities from the Shepherdstown meeting. Copies of papers summaries and abstracts can be purchased from Richard Block.

The 1996 Annual Meeting

The 1996 annual meeting was held in from June 9 to June 12, 1996 in Santa Monica, sponsored by the RAND Corporation. The Nature of Homicide: Trends and Changes - Proceedings of the 1996 Meeting of the Homicide Research Working Group provides essays on presentations and records of discussions from the 1996 meeting.

The 1995 Annual Meeting

The 1995 annual meeting was held from June 11 to June 14, 1995, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, sponsored by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Statistics Canada. The Ottawa meeting had about 60 participants and featured field trips to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) labs. Lethal Violence: Proceedings of the 1995 Meeting of the Homicide Research Working Group provides essays on presentations and records of discussions from the 1995 meeting.

The 1994 Annual Meeting

The 1994 annual meeting was held from June 12 to June 15, 1994, in Atlanta, Georgia, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Emory University. Ninety members and guests of the HRWG attended, including national and international researchers. A variety of panels focused on issues pertaining to ongoing research by HRWG members, such as youth violence, gun control, violence surveillance systems, drug and alcohol related homicides, and workplace homicides. Keynote and special addresses were given by William Walker, Executive Director, and Reverend Dr. Derek B. King, special project assistant, both from the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta. Trends, Risks, and Interventions in Lethal Violence: Proceedings of the Third Annual Spring Symposium of the Homicide Research Working Group provides essays on presentations given during the 1994 symposium.

The 1993 Annual Meeting

The 1993 annual meeting of the HRWG was held from June 13 to June 17, 1993, hosted by the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. The theme for the meeting was "Public Safety -- Linking Data, Coordinating Resources, and Learning from Different Approaches." Fifty-one HRWG members from a variety of disciplines -- public health, criminology, geography, nursing, pediatrics, public policy, sociology, criminal justice and others -- debated and brainstormed questions such as the life chances of homicide, how to reconcile public health and criminal justice approaches to violence, and the definition and measurement of victim precipitation; they discussed methods of spatial analysis, managing large databases, and data linking; they shared the latest information about homicide databases and intervention programs; and they rolled up their sleeves at tutorials on serial murder investigation, forensics, and firearms. Questions and Answers in Lethal and Non-Lethal Violence: Proceedings of the Second Annual Workshop of the Homicide Research Working Group provides essays on presentations given during the 1993 meeting.

The 1992 Annual Meeting

The first three-day Annual Meeting was held from June 14 to June 16, 1992 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The meeting was sponsored by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) . Attended by 29 homicide researchers and policy experts, the meeing included tutorials on national homicide datasets, reviews of local homicide research projects, a hands-on session on measuring drug-related crime, a roundtable discussion on three homicide intervention projects, an introduction to and tour of the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data, and a "town meeting" discussion of issues of lethal and non-lethal violence. Questions and Answers in Lethal and Non-Lethal Violence: Proceedings of the First Annual Workshop of the Homicide Research Working Group provides essays on presentations given during the 1992 meeting.

The Charter Meeting

The November, 1991, charter meeting, held as a session at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology (ASC), brought together over 70 people who were struggling with the problems associated with collecting, maintaining, defining and analyzing homicide data. The ASC Workshop session identified homicide research currently being conducted, distributed sets of "homicide data questionnaires" that participants had completed about 18 projects, and outlined some of the primary issues facing homicide research. Since then, the HRWG has held sessions at subsequent ASC and Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) annual meetings.

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