Full Description
This thoroughly revised and updated text is about the circumstances in theories purporting to explain murder, and presents up-to-date statistical data identifying homicide patterns and trends. It covers topics ranging from domestic and workplace homicide to cult and hate killings; murder committed by juveniles to serial slayings. Finally, it examines criminal justice responses to homicide, including the strategies and tactics employed to apprehend, prosecute, and punish killers. Virtually every chapter in this edition has undergone significant revision. In particular, this edition reflects recent legislative changes and Supreme Court decisions, includes new case examples, and contains extensively expanded discussions of family and school homicide.
Contents
1. The Lure and the Law of Homicide2. Explaining the Will to Kill3. The Killers and their Victims4. Intimate and Family Murder5. The Young and the Ruthless6. Well-Schooled in Murder7. Serial Killers8. Medical Murder9. Rampage10. Hate Homicides11. Murderous Terror12. Cult Killings13. Catching Killers14. Getting Away with Murder, or Not
