Homicide

• Author : Martin Daly,Margo Wilson
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2017-07-12
• ISBN : 9781351515269

The human race spends a disproportionate amount of attention, money, and expertise in solving, trying, and reporting homicides, as compared to other social problems. The public avidly consumes accounts of real-life homicide cases, and murder fiction is more popular still. Nevertheless, we have only the most rudimentary scientific understanding of who is likely to kill whom and why. Martin Daly and Margo Wilson apply contemporary evolutionary theory to analysis of human motives and perceptions of self-interest, considering where and why

• Author : Fiona Brookman
• Publisher : SAGE
• Release Date : 2005-01-26
• ISBN : 9781446223888

"Lively and engaging, Understanding Homicide impressively fills an important gap in the current criminological literature... an authoritative and readable text on homicide." Keith Soothill, Lancaster University, UK Why do people kill? How is homicide investigated? What are the patterns and characteristics of UK homicide? How can it be prevented? Here is a comprehensive and challenging text unravelling the phenomenon of homicide. The author combines original analysis with a lucid overview of the key theories and debates in the study of

• Author : Paul Elliott Rock
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release Date : 1998
• ISBN : 0198267959

Describing the collective responses of bereaved people to the aftermath of violent death, this book concentrates particularly on the birth, development and organization of the self-help and campaigning groups that emerged in the last decade.

• Author : Robert K. Ressler,Ann Wolbert Burgess,John E. Douglas
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 1988
• ISBN : 9780669165593

Overview: Who are the men committing the rising number of serial homicides in the U.S. - and why do they kill? The increase in these violent crimes over the past decade has created an urgent need for more and better information about these men: their crime scene patterns, violent acts, and above all, their motivations for committing these shocking and repetitive murders. This authoritative book represents the data, findings, and implications of a long-term F.B.I.-sponsored study

• Author : Molly MacRae
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 2020-12-01
• ISBN : 9781643135854

The new novel in the acclaimed Highland Bookshop mystery series finds a true-crime author murdered in the charming seacoast town of Inversgail—can the women of Yon Bonnie Books discover the killer’s identity before he or she strikes again? True crime writer Heather Kilbride arrives in the seacoast town of Inversgail, Scotland, to research a recent murder for her new book. But if that’s true, why does she seem more interested in William Clark, a shadowy lawyer with

• Author : Homicide Research Working Group. Workshop
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1999
• ISBN : PURD:32754069311094

• Author : Vernon J. Geberth
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release Date : 2020-06-30
• ISBN : 9781000195934

Renowned for being THE definitive resource for homicide investigators, Practical Homicide Investigation: Tactics, Procedures, and Forensic Techniques details the recognized protocols used by investigative divisions of major police departments throughout the world. The text is used in most police academies, including the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Now in its fifth edition, the book begins with a comprehensive discussion of homicide crime scenes and moves chronologically from initial police notification, the correct police response that follows, and the subsequent steps

• Author : Michael Farrell
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2021-07-22
• ISBN : 9781000413274

Homicide and Severe Mental Disorder: Understanding and Prevention provides a complete picture of how severe mental disorder can be assessed in cases of homicide, and how improved understanding can impact risk reduction and prevention. Michael Farrell brings together a wide range of material including theory, research, demographic data, case examples, enquiry reports, and practical strategies, providing clear examples throughout. Farrell draws on examples of homicide representing a great challenge to both comprehension and prevention – cases that have sometimes provoked media

• Author : O. Chan
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2015-04-28
• ISBN : 9781137453723

This book offers a comprehensive understanding of sexual homicide. It includes a thorough survey of offender classifications, and analyses current theoretical explanations and understandings of sexual homicide from a criminological perspective. It proposes an important new integrated theoretical understanding of sexual homicide offenders.

• Author : John E. Douglas,Ann W. Burgess,Robert K. Ressler
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 2008-06-30
• ISBN : 9781439118313

Who are the men committing the rising number of serial homicides in the U.S. -- and why do they kill? The increase in these violent crimes over the past decade has created an urgent need for more and better information about these men: their crime scene patterns, violent acts, and above all, their motivations for committing these shocking and repetitive murders. This authoritative book represents the data, findings, and implications of a long-term F.B.I.-sponsored study of

• Author : Janne Kivivuori,Mona Rautelin,Jeppe Büchert Netterstrøm,Dag Lindström,Guðbjörg S. Bergsdóttir,Jónas O. Jónasson,Martti Lehti,Sven Granath,Mikkel M. Okholm,Petri Karonen
• Publisher : Helsinki University Press
• Release Date : 2022-02-16
• ISBN : 9789523690639

Nordic Homicide in Deep Time draws a unique and detailed picture of developments in human interpersonal violence and presents new findings on rates, patterns, and long-term changes in lethal violence in the Nordics. Conducted by an interdisciplinary team of criminologists and historians, the book analyses homicide and lethal violence in northern Europe in two eras – the 17th century and early 21st century. Similar and continuous societal structures, cultural patterns, and legal cultures allow for long-term and comparative homicide research in

• Author : Alan Reed,Michael Bohlander
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2018-09-03
• ISBN : 9781351016292

This volume presents a leading contribution to the substantive arena relating to homicide in the criminal law. In broad terms, the ambit of homicide standardisations in extant law is contestable and opaque. This book provides a logical template to focus the debate. The overall concept addresses three specific elements within this arena, embracing an overarching synergy between them. This edifice engages in an examination of UK provisions, and in contrasting these provisions against alternative domestic jurisdictions as well as comparative

• Author : Eric C. Schneider
• Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
• Release Date : 2020-11-06
• ISBN : 9780812297836

Like so many big cities in the United States, Philadelphia has suffered from a strikingly high murder rate over the past fifty years. Such tragic loss of life, as Eric C. Schneider demonstrates, does not occur randomly throughout the city; rather, murders have been racialized and spatialized, concentrated in the low-income African American populations living within particular neighborhoods. In The Ecology of Homicide, Schneider tracks the history of murder in Philadelphia during a critical period from World War II until

• Author : Ardath Whynacht
• Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
• Release Date : 2021-11-20
• ISBN : 1773634836

When loved ones transgress into violence, how do we seek justice and safety outside of policing and prisons?

• Author : Great Britain: Law Commission
• Publisher : The Stationery Office
• Release Date : 2006-04-04
• ISBN : 0117302643

This consultation paper reviews the law relating to homicide in England and Wales, and sets out a number of provisional proposals in order to establish a more rational and coherent framework of legislation. Issues discussed include: the existing law and problems with it; the definition of murder and manslaughter; partial defences including provocation, diminished responsibility and duress; the fault element in murder and the concept of intention; and the doctrine of double-effect. The paper proposes the creation of a new