Title: Questions and answers in lethal and non-lethal violence :
Authors: Homicide Research Working Group.; Block, Carolyn R.; Block, Richard.; National Institute of Justice (U.S.)
Date: 1992
Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice,
Physical description: viii, 141 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: H
Contents: Different levels, common causes: St. Louis homicide rates in national perspective / Richard Rosenfeld, Scott Decker and Carol Kohfeld -- Drugs and violence / Paul J. Goldstein -- The danger assessment instrument: risk factors of homicide of and by battered women / Jacquelyn C. Campbell -- Using surveillance in homicide and violence prevention / Carl C. Bell and Esther J. Jenkins -- Computer mapping as a tool in violence reduction / Carolyn Rebecca Block -- The Canadian homicide database: problems and solutions / Christine Wright -- The national incident-based reporting system and its applications to homicide research / John Patrick Jarvis -- Collecting data from investigation files: descriptions of three Los Angeles gang homicide projects / Cheryl L. Maxson -- Overview of the Chicago homicide project / Carolyn Rebecca Block and Richard L. Block -- The Baltimore city homicide file / Derral Cheatwood -- "Clearing" homicides in Philadelphia: the Philadelphia homicide project / Korni Swaroop Kumar, Leonard D. Savitz and Stanley H. Turner.
Notes: Shipping list no.: 93-0605-P.
Subject headings (LCSH): Homicide--Research--United States--Congresses.; Violence--Research--United States--Congresses.