Detection Avoidance in Homicide: Debates, Explanations and Responses

Author:   Claire Ferguson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780367266875


Pages:   138
Publication Date:   21 June 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Detection Avoidance in Homicide: Debates, Explanations and Responses


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Detection Avoidance in Homicides: Debates, Explanations and Responses presents theory and research on how offenders avoid detection and the challenges and opportunities these efforts pose to investigators. From a scholarly perspective, the book presents a continuing history of research on detection avoidance by offenders, discusses the features of complex death investigations involving detection avoidance, and critiques the current frameworks used for conceptualizing these behaviors. Dr. Ferguson focuses on the key debates in the literature, argues for collaborations between researchers and practitioners to remedy siloing, and explores the reality of detection avoidance in homicides as complex and multifaceted. While detection avoidance behaviors have the potential to negatively impact sudden death investigations and frustrate criminal investigations specifically, their use also creates broader problems. These include many problematic effects on family members of the deceased, police officers, police agencies and the communities they serve. Offenders choosing to use detection avoidance behaviors challenges the efficient use of public resources, puts at risk the successful adjudication of homicides, and creates a public safety issue. The book explains detection avoidance using learning, situational, individual and gender-based theories, including proposing whether it may be a form of coercive control used by intimate partner abusers. Finally, how detection avoidance by offenders is recognized and responded to in sudden death investigations is addressed, with specific reference to useful examples of policy reform implemented by various police agencies internationally. Providing research and theory to explain detection avoidance and best practice for responding to it, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of criminology, forensic science and psychology. It will also be useful to professionals working with homicide offenders.

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Author:   Claire Ferguson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.362kg
ISBN:  

9780367266875


ISBN 10:   0367266873
Pages:   138
Publication Date:   21 June 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. A continuing history of research into detection avoidance 2. The basics of detection avoidance in homicide 3. Categorizing detection avoidance behavior using typologies 4. Discovering crime scene staging through deception detection 5. Explaining offenders’ use of detection avoidance 6. Towards a theory of detection avoidance as a form of coercive control 7. Challenges and opportunities in uncovering concealed homicides Index

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Claire Ferguson is a Senior Lecturer and researcher in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane Australia. Claire’s work bridges the gap between theory and practice in complex sudden death investigations potentially involving detection avoidance. While she has published over 40 articles in many academic journals, she also uses her research to inform training and expert consultancy for assisting police, attorneys, and coroners investigating missing persons, equivocal deaths, and suspected homicides.

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