
Homicide
Description
Key Features
- Provides an up-to-date examination of homicide, including rates, causes and responses to from an international point-of-view
- Includes multiple homicide types (serial, spree and mass), ideological homicide, and domestic and sexual homicide, amongst others
- Uses historical and current research and theory on homicide from around the world
Readership
Students/instructors of courses in criminology, forensic criminology, psychology, forensic psychology, victimology, forensic victimology, psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, forensic science and criminal justice. Useful reference for those researching homicide or related topics
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Biological Roots of Homicide
3. Psychological Roots of Homicide
4. Social Roots of Homicide
5. Single Homicides
6. Serial Homicides
7. Spree and Mass Homicides
8. Domestic Homicides
9. Sexual Homicides
10. Ideological Homicides
11. Killing by the State
12. Investigating Homicide
13. Preventing Homicide
Product details
- No. of pages: 341
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: December 3, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128125298