#11426. Introductory essay to this issue: International perspectives on homicide and the law: Part III

August 2026publication date
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Abstract:
As we go to press with the last in the trilogy of international special issues on homicide and the law, we cannot escape the deplorable contemporary context of homicide in the United States. After years of decreasing rates of homicide, the homicide rate surged to 30 percent higher in 2020 than the year before. Although still below historically high rates, well into 2021 the high homicide rate appears to have continued unabated. The research argues that if the Internet has fostered or facilitated homicide in some ways, it has also enabled the development of “virtual communities” of individuals with common interests. This tracks in parallel the destigmatizing trend of referencing individuals with mental illness rather than the mentally ill. Also moving in this direction of refocusing is the consideration of deleting from the International Classification of Diseases, any paraphilia that does not involve fantasies that would be criminal if realized in action.
Keywords:
Homicide; virtual communities; the Internet; mental illness

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