Description
For courses in Homicide Studies and other courses in Criminal Justice and Criminology.
Moving away from sensationalism, this text provides a broad academic treatment of homicide. Appropriate for undergraduate students, it offers a holistic view of the topic: referencing theories from different disciplines (psychology, biology, sociology, criminology) and findings from different regions around the world. Using examples from all types of incidents, the text provides more realistic coverage because it includes not just the high profile cases shown in the media and in books. Encouraging a scholarly understanding of the topic, it devotes separate chapters to each type of homicide and includes unique chapters on solving homicides and processing homicides in court.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Definitions and Degrees
3. Measuring Murder
4. Patterns and Trends
5. Biological and Psychological Explanations for Homicide
6. Social and Cultural Explanations for Homicide
7. Confrontational Homicide
8. Intimate Partner Homicide
9. Children Who Kill
10. Infanticide and Murder of Children
11. Mass and Spree Murder
12. Serial Murder
13. Murder as Hate Crime
14. Solving Homicides
15. Homicide in Court
16. The Impact of Homicide
17. Stopping Murder
18. Future of Homicide in U.S.
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Murder Book: Examining Homicide, CourseSmart eTextbook, The
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$31.99 | ISBN-13: 978-0-13-500945-1
