Citation

Williams DJ, Vincent J. J. Forensic Sci. 2018; 63(6): 1914-1916.

Affiliation

Department of Sociology, UCF College of Sciences, University of Central Florida, 4297 Andromeda Loop North, Howard Phillips Hall, 411, Orlando, FL.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, American Society for Testing and Materials, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/1556-4029.13796

PMID

29684945

Abstract

Recently, scholars in literary criminology and leisure sciences have begun to explore the role of broader leisure culture in potentially shaping fantasy development, planning, preparation, and execution in specific cases of expressive homicide. This brief report focuses on an unusual case of expressive homicide, wherein two teen offenders in Idaho collaborated to murder a female classmate as an intentional leisure activity. Prior to the murder, the offenders created a videotape describing how they planned to commit this (and additional) murders. A careful analysis of the videotape content, along with other primary court documents, illustrates how leisure preferences can combine with traditional psychiatric variables to shape the unique process of certain forms of expressive homicide.

© 2018 American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

Language: en

Keywords

forensic science; homicide investigation; leisure; popular culture; serial homicide; teen offenders