A classification of combined homicide‐suicide: An update—Part III: Extrafamilial homicide‐suicide

The subclassification of homicide‐suicide into psychopathology and intrafamilial homicide‐suicides having been presented in the foregoing Parts I and II, this Part III concerns extrafamilial homicide‐suicides. Extrafamilial homicide‐suicides are divided into adversarial, autogenic mass, cult, and te...

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Published in:Journal of forensic sciences Vol. 69; no. 1; pp. 241 - 251
Main Authors: Felthous, Alan R., Masood, Yasir, Safari, Delavar, Rodgers, Emily, Chennu, Navreet, Kahlon, Chanchal, Angly, Mary
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.01.2024
Subjects:
Classification
cult homicide‐suicide
extra‐familial homicide‐suicides
Gun violence
Homicide
homicide‐suicide classification
Humans
mass homicide‐suicide
Mass murders
Mass Shooting Events
Murders & murder attempts
Personal relationships
Psychopathology
school shootings
School violence
Schools
Shootings
Strangers
Students
Suicide
Suicides & suicide attempts
Terrorism
terrorist homicide‐suicide
Terrorists
Victims
Workplace violence
school shootings
mass homicide-suicide
cult homicide-suicide
workplace violence
extra-familial homicide-suicides
homicide-suicide classification
terrorist homicide-suicide
ISSN:0022-1198, 1556-4029, 1556-4029
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Summary:The subclassification of homicide‐suicide into psychopathology and intrafamilial homicide‐suicides having been presented in the foregoing Parts I and II, this Part III concerns extrafamilial homicide‐suicides. Extrafamilial homicide‐suicides are divided into adversarial, autogenic mass, cult, and terrorist homicide‐suicides. Adversarial homicide‐suicides involve a “formal” relationship between actor and homicide victims, further divided according to the role of the actor in their relationship as employee, current or former pupil/student as in school shootings, patient, and litigant. For comparison, school shootings were divided into those resulting in 10 or more homicide victims and those with fewer. The autogenic mass homicide‐suicide, wherein victims are strangers to the actor, was heuristically bifurcated here depending on the number of homicide victims, 10 or more or fewer. As expected, the homicide‐suicides with larger numbers of victims were more homogenous.
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ISSN:0022-1198
1556-4029
1556-4029
DOI:10.1111/1556-4029.15392