A01=Meredith Emigh-Guy
Author_Meredith Emigh-Guy
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clearance rate
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firearms
hate crimes
history
intimate partner homicide
investigation
mass shootings
moral panic
murder
weapons
Product details
- ISBN 9781793629616
- Weight: 354g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Nov 2024
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Meredith Emigh-Guy combines criminological theories and FBI homicide data to examine recent trends in the homicide rate as well as the clearance rate. This work situates homicide statistics in the United States in a global and historical context by addressing questions of stranger-perpetrated homicide and intimate partner violence. Several potential reasons for a decline in the number of solved homicides are explored, including victim/offender relationships, weapons, and improvements in forensics. Emigh-Guy concludes that modern media representations have skewed the general public’s understanding of violent crime and provides the statistics to show how reality differs from misconception.
Meredith Emigh-Guy is assistant professor and chair of the Criminal Justice Department at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine.
