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5 Homicide Stud. 3 (2001)

handle is hein.journals/homcst5 and id is 1 raw text is: Editor's Introduction As conversations at the last Homicide Research Working Group meeting revealed, I am not the only one a bit stunned that Homi- cide Studies is entering its fifth year of publication. Based on the articles appearing here and those set for future issues, it promises to be an interesting year. This first issue of Volume 5 opens with an article by Sean Pat- rick Varano and Jeffrey Michael Cancino. In An Empirical Analy- sis of Deviant Homicides in Chicago, they explore patterns among homicides that depart from the typical victim-offender relationships that characterize most murders. Employing the well-known Chicago homicide data set, Varano and Cancino focus on whether those persons involved in what have been called deviant homicides are likely to display certain characteris- tics, most especially weak ties to prominent social institutions. Finding results that support this hypothesis, the authors suggest that understanding the sometimes subtle nuances of homicide sit- uations will require even finer disaggregations of victim-offender relationships than are generally used in most contemporary research efforts. Martin Daly, Margo Wilson, Catherine A. Salmon, Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa, and Toshikazu Hasegawa follow with Siblicide and Seniority, an article that uses an evolutionary per- spective in exploring patterns of siblicide. Analyzing data from Canada, Chicago, Great Britain, and Japan, Daly et al. find a cross-national pattern of younger siblings killing older siblings to exist, although Japanese siblicides are less likely to display this pattern. The pattern is especially pronounced in the other coun- tries when the analysis is restricted to the most dominant cate- gory, adult males. Interestingly, neither birth order nor span of age disparities show unique patterns. The authors consider the role of sibling rivalry in explaining their findings and discuss implica- tions of the long-recognized struggle for power and authority between brothers. In addition, they speculate on possible cultural HOMICIDE STUDIES, Vol. 5 No. 1, February 2001 3-4 @ 2001 Sage Publications, Inc. 3 from the SAGE Social Science Collections. All Rights Reserved.

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