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This chapter will provide an overview of the research related to the varied pathways of juvenile murderers and the identified correlating risk factors. Classifications based on psychological constructs, specific characteristics of the crime, and the victim-offender relationship will be examined. Most notable is Cornell’s typologies, which group offenders into crime-related, conflict-related, and psychotic-related groups, and the different risk factors associated with these groups. Differences in pathways with respect to female offenders , young offenders , parricide offenders, and mass shooters will be examined.
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Hernandez, K.A., Ferguson, S., Kennedy, T.D. (2020). Juvenile Homicide Offenders: Classifications/Typologies. In: A Closer Look at Juvenile Homicide. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38168-4_2
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