Juvenile homicide offenders: A 35‐year‐follow‐up study

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 493-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen M. Heide
Author(s):  
Norair Khachatryan ◽  
Kathleen M. Heide ◽  
Erich V. Hummel

Although juvenile homicide has been a matter of concern in the United States since the 1980s, prior research has not addressed long-term recidivism patterns for convicted juvenile murderers. Furthermore, a prominent juvenile homicide typology had not previously been tested with U.S. offenders. The present study examined whether juvenile offenders who killed or attempted to kill during the commission of a crime differed from those who killed due to some type of conflict on pre-incarceration, incarceration, and post-incarceration variables. These offenders were sentenced to adult prison in the early 1980s. Follow-up data spanned 30 years. The results indicated that approximately 88% of released offenders have been rearrested. Analyses of pre-incarceration variables revealed that crime-oriented offenders were significantly more likely to commit the homicide offense using accomplices than conflict-oriented offenders, and the latter were significantly more likely to use a firearm during the homicide incident. The circumstances of the homicide, however, were not significantly related to any other pre-incarceration variables, release from prison, number of post-release arrests, and number of post-release violent offenses. The implications of the findings, their comparability to previous follow-up research on this typology, and avenues for future research are discussed.


Author(s):  
C. Wolpers ◽  
R. Blaschke

Scanning microscopy was used to study the surface of human gallstones and the surface of fractures. The specimens were obtained by operation, washed with water, dried at room temperature and shadowcasted with carbon and aluminum. Most of the specimens belong to patients from a series of X-ray follow-up study, examined during the last twenty years. So it was possible to evaluate approximately the age of these gallstones and to get information on the intensity of growing and solving.Cholesterol, a group of bile pigment substances and different salts of calcium, are the main components of human gallstones. By X-ray diffraction technique, infra-red spectroscopy and by chemical analysis it was demonstrated that all three components can be found in any gallstone. In the presence of water cholesterol crystallizes in pane-like plates of the triclinic crystal system.


1997 ◽  
Vol 24 (10) ◽  
pp. 713-717 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. NAPANKANGAS ◽  
M.A.M. SALONEN ◽  
A.M. RAUSTIA

2001 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. A628-A628
Author(s):  
P CLEMENS ◽  
V HAWIG ◽  
M MUELLER ◽  
J SCAENZLIN ◽  
B KLUMP ◽  
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2004 ◽  
Vol 171 (4S) ◽  
pp. 194-195
Author(s):  
Kyoichi Tomita ◽  
Haruki Kume ◽  
Keishi Kashibuchi ◽  
Satoru Muto ◽  
Shigeo Horie ◽  
...  

JAMA ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 194 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Livingston
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