Called, “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Civil Rights: A Public Policy Agenda for Uniting a Divided America,” this book is now available. It is edited by Wallace Swan and published by Taylor & Francis. One chapter authored by Dallas Drake of the Center for Homicide Research is titled: “Understanding Economic Power Dynamics as a Method to Combat …
This 14-page research report is “law-enforcement sensitive,” meaning that it is not available to the general public. Based on 150 homicide cases where female intimates were murdered and then disposed of (and later found), this report lays out a detailed account of how offenders disposed of bodies or human remains. Common and uncommon patterns were …
Behavioral Patterns in the Body Disposals of Female Intimate-Partners Read More »
A special program of the Center for Homicide Research involves the opportunity to become an Associate Researcher. This allows serious academic researchers to obtain the technical and material support of the Center for select independent projects. Susan McCormick Hadley, a student at Fielding Graduate University, pursued her doctoral dissertation with us during the 2013-14 year. …
Intimate Partner Homicide-Suicide: The Role of Media in Depicting Life-Ending Events Read More »
The nature of mass media has changed from a centralized model of traditional journalism to a decentralized model heavily based on open-data and instantaneous social media communication. The Center for Homicide Research examined the issue of whether new forms of media follow best practices for reporting on and providing information on homicide. Researchers hypothesized that traditional …
The much-awaited book, Understanding Necrophilia: A Global Multidisciplinary Approach, has finally reached store shelves. Perhaps the best is chapter 20, “Windows Into the Crypt: Proposing a Scale of Sexual Animation” authored by Dallas Drake, the Center for Homicide Research’s Principal Researcher. In it he proposes that necrophilia can be organized along a continuum opposite of …
The Center for Homicide Research conducted a study at the 2017 Twin Cities Pride Festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This study assessed concealed carry rates among LGBT+ individuals before and after the Pulse Nightclub shooting. The assessments made in this study also considered self-defense needs within the LGBT+ community. To access this report, click here. DONATION …
LGBT+ Concealed Carry Rates Before and After the Pulse Nightclub Shooting Read More »
Authored by former research intern Neema Mohseni, this paper reveals the geographic distribution of GLBT versus non-GLBT homicides in Minnesota over 22 years. Mohseni served as a GIS-specialist during his time at the center. To access the report, click here. DONATION LEVELS INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES The Center for Homicide Research offers one of the finest …
In a book released in 2017, Joan Swart and Lee Mellor have produced: Homicide: A Forensic Psychology Casebook. Chapter 14 was authored by CHR senior researcher Dallas Drake and is called “Intra-psychic Motivations in Stranger Homicides Involving Gay or Bisexual Males.” This chapter first lays the groundwork for sexual homicide of gay or bisexual males. It …
Following the shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, the NRA proposed arming schoolteachers as a means of stopping mass shootings. This paper investigates firearm discharge by schoolteachers prior to Sandy Hook with the hope that it might provide a baseline for later comparative analysis. Access the report, click here. DONATION LEVELS INTERNSHIP …
Teachers With Guns: Firearms Discharges by Schoolteachers, 1980-2012 Read More »
This paper investigates the distribution of homicides across the year in Minneapolis by plotting the intervals of peacefulness between homicide incidents. Data shows the drop in peacefulness began in tandem with the “stay-at-home order,” but was exacerbated by the civil unrest. Since that time, peacefulness has been increasing as we approach the end of the …
Homicides Subside: Peacefulness Gradually Returns to Minneapolis at End of 2020 Read More »