Two papers in the section that examines theoretical approaches to the study of homicide consider angry aggression (the intent to harm) as a form of violent crime, as well as gendered interaction in criminal homicide. Two papers on violence between intimates consider the range of relationships involved in assaults between intimates and reasons for violence in intimate relationships. Four papers on children and adolescents who commit homicide address the dynamics of parricide and suicide by children involved in family conflict, a profile of adolescent parricide offenders, validation of a typology of adolescent murderers, and patterns of homicide among children. Four studies of females involved in homicide profile the female murderer, discuss the structural correlates of female homicide patterns, examine any correlation between gender inequality and the rate at which women kill their children, and consider the dynamics of the maternal filicide of preschoolers. Three papers on race and homicide focus on racial patterns in offender and victim characteristics. Four papers analyze various issues associated with the characteristics of offender-victim relationships and interactions in stranger homicide. The concluding section contains two papers on victim characteristics in serial and multiple-offender homicides. For individual chapters, see NCJ-143045-66. Chapter tables and references