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11 Asian J. Criminology 1 (2016)

handle is hein.journals/asjrcrm11 and id is 1 raw text is: Asian Criminology (2016) 11:1-19 DOI 10.1007/s11417-015-9215-0 Evidence of Convergent Validity: A Comparative Analysis of Sentencing Verdicts and Newspaper Accounts of South Korean Parricides Phillip C. Shon- Jihee Lee2 Received: 9 February 2015 /Accepted: 8 May 2015 /Published online: 28 May 2015 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 Abstract Researchers have used multiple sources of archival data (e.g., newspapers, trial transcripts, biographies, and periodicals) to examine parricides and other types of homicide. However, the validity of using newspapers as a form of data has been accepted in an anecdotal and impressionistic manner. This paper compares newspapers with one particular type of court record, the sentencing verdict. The two divergent sources of data are used to create a convergence rate, proffering evidence of convergent validity in two disparate archival sources. Findings indicate that there is convergence in the emic factors related to parricide. The implications for using archival records for homicide research and democracy are discussed. Keywords Archives - Criminal justice records - Parricide - Sentencing verdict - Newspaper and crime Introduction Parricide has been researched extensively for the past 30 years. It has been shown to be one of the rarest forms of homicide, constituting between 2 % of general homicides in the USA (Shon and Targonski 2003; Walsh and Krienert 2009) and 5.3 % in South Korea (Ahn et al. 2012). In addition to its low frequency, the demographic characteristics of parricide victims and of- fenders, their motivation, weapons used, and their portrayal in the media have been fruitfully pursued using aggregate datasets, clinical samples, and media reports (Heide and Petee 2007a, b; Heide and Boots 2007). The way parricide has been operationalized has also varied: some have included stepparents as victims and stepchildren as offenders in the definition while 2 Phillip C. Shon phillip.shon@uoit.ca; pshonl@yahoo.com Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON L1H 7K4, Canada 2 Department of Justice Administration, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA 4_ Springer

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