Full Description
This volume of Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance addresses a variety of issues and concerns involved with the study of violent crime and homicide in the contemporary world. The chapters are conceived against the background of the enduring nature of violence and killing in the modern age, despite trends towards increased levels of civilization and the protection of rights. Whilst it is clear that the world of today is, in many respects, a better place, violence and homicide remain and even increase from time to time and from place to place.
Each chapter tackles key questions of how and why these problematic forms of behaviour continue to exist. Specifically, chapters examine the killing of children, responses to domestic abuse, female killers, incidents of racial and religious violence, the dynamics of violence on college campuses, the role of police and state institutions in relation to violence, and global aspects of violence and murder.
This book will be of interest to scholars and students in criminology, sociology, criminal justice, and public policy.
Contents
Introduction: Studying Violence and Killing; Mathieu DeflemPart I - Family and Gender
1. The Murdering of Children; Melissa J. Tetzlaff-Bemiller
2. Coordinated Community Response: Toward a More Systematic Response to Domestic Violence in an Urban Setting; Denise Paquette Boots, Laura M. Gulledge, Timothy Bray, and Jennifer Wareham
3. Feminist Pathways and Female Homicide Offenders; Alesa Liles and Stacy Moak
Part II - Institutions and Identity
4. Durkheim, Totemism, and the Manson Family: Theorizing on the Relationship Between Religion and Violence; Danielle Sutton
5. A Decade After Virginia Tech: Considerations of Campus Safety and Security for Higher Education Institutions; Daniel Adrian Doss
6. The Relevance of Bias Violence in the 21st Century; Kayla Allison
Part III - Police and State Power
7. Solving Homicides: Understanding Trends and Patterns in Police Clearances of Lethal Violence; Wendy C. Regoeczi
8. Police Violence Across the Racial-Spatial Divide; Malcolm D. Holmes
9. A Multi-Level Theory of the State's Monopoly on Violence: Explaining the Effect of the Police on Violence; Paige Vaughn
10. Considering an "Alternative Capacity to Desire": Institutional Anomie Theory, the American Dream, and the Ontological Turn; James B. Pratt, Jr.
Part IV - Across the Globe
11. Global Trends in Homicide; Mateus Rennó Santos and Alexander Testa
12. It is Less about Wealth or Poverty than with Equality and Formal Social Control: An Analysis of the Determinants of the Homicide Rate in 145 Countries of the World; Claire Chabot and Marc Ouimet
13. Murder in a Twin Island Paradise: Trends and Strategies Implemented to Address Criminal Homicide in Trinidad and Tobago; Ericka B. Adams and Claudio G. Vera Sanchez
