Dear Dr. Brooker, find below a list with publications from the recent years covering this topic. Perhaps this may be helpful for you..

• Fox J.A., DeLateur M.J. (2014): Mass Shootings in America. Moving Beyond Newtown. Homicide Studies 18(1):125-145.
• Coverdale J.H., Coverdale S.M., Nairn R. (2013). “Behind the Mug Shot Grin”. Uses of Madness-Talk in Reports of Loughner’s Mass Killing. Journal of Communication Inquiry 37(3):200-216.
• Kalucy M., Rodway C., Finn J., et al. (2011). Comparison of British National Newspaper Coverage of Homicide Committed by Perpetrators with and Without Mental Illness. Aust N Z J Psychiatry 45(7):539-548.
• Swinson N., Flynn S.M., While D., et al. (2011). Trends in rates of mental illness in homicide perpetrators. The British Journal of Psychiatry 198:485-489.

Another way to find more publications could be, to search for studies in which the paper from Taylor and Gunn is cited.

Kind regards, Michael Krichbaum

Thanks, Michael, I'd like to look at trends in England from 1955 to the current day. Apologies, I should have been more explicit.

Dear Charlie Brooker,

Some reports::

The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness Annual Report July 2014

http://www.bbmh.manchester.ac.uk/cmhr/centreforsuicideprevention/nci/reports/Annualreport2014.pdf

Violence and mental illness: What Lewis Carroll had to say. Torrey EF, Miller J. Schizophr Res. 2014 Dec;160(1-3):33-4.

Single-Victim and Serial Sexual Homicide Offenders: Differences in Crime, Paraphilias and Personality Traits. Chan HC, Beauregard E, Myers WC.. Crim Behav Ment Health. 2014 Aug 11.

The relationship between mental disorders and types of crime in inmates in a Brazilian prison. Pondé MP, Caron J, Mendonça MS, Freire AC, Moreau N.

J Forensic Sci. 2014 Sep;59(5):1307-14.

Obsessions of child murder: underrecognized manifestations of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Booth BD, Friedman SH, Curry S, Ward H, Stewart SE.

J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2014;42(1):66-74

Homicide offenders 32 years later - a Swedish population-based study on recidivism. Sturup J, Lindqvist P. Crim Behav Ment Health. 2014 Feb;24(1):5-17.

Neurocognitive vulnerability: suicidal and homicidal behaviours in patients with schizophrenia. Richard-Devantoy S, Orsat M, Dumais A, Turecki G, Jollant F. Can J Psychiatry. 2014 Jan;59(1):18-25. Review.

PS. Mentally ill people are nearly five times more likely to be victims of murder than general populationl Jeremy Laurance, Wednesday 06 March 2013, The Independent. "Swedish and American researchers examined 615 murders in Sweden between 2001 and 2008 and found in more than one in five (22 per cent) the victim had been mentally ill."

Dear Dr. Brooker,

the paper from Swinson et al (2011) presents english data. Another scource are the annual reports of the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness which provides data from the last decade (see the link below; but I suppose that you are aware of this scource).

Kind regards.

http://www.bbmh.manchester.ac.uk/cmhr/research/centreforsuicideprevention/nci/

Interesting we have many studies about genetic of suicide! Why we have not genetic studies about homicides!?

Thanks for your interesting question and informative answers, Dr. Brooker, Dr. Ewalds-Kvist, and Dr. Krichbaum.

Dear Dr Brooker,

You might also be interested in looking at the study by Rodway et al (2011) in which they examined the characteristics and mental health care contact of a large sample form England and Wales of homicide perpetrators aged 17 and under.

There might be interesting figures.

Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20385406

Best Wishes,

Jeane

Many thanks Jeane

Interesting the suicide maybe has genetic dimension, but the homicide in most culture no...!?

Many thanks!