Wiley Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice: The Handbook of Homicide

Editors: Brookman, Fiona, Maguire, Edward R. and Maguire, Mike
Publication Year: 2017
Publisher: Wiley

Price: Core Collection Only
ISBN: 978-1-11-892447-1
Category: Social Sciences - Criminology & Law
Image Count: 71
Book Status: Available
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The Handbook of Homicide presents a series of original essays by renowned authors from around the world, reflecting the latest scholarship on the nature, causes, and patterns of homicide, as well as policies and practices for its investigation and prevention.

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Table of Contents

  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Homicide in Context
  • 1. Murderous Thoughts
  • 2. Geographic and Temporal Variation in Cross-National Homicide Victimization Rates
  • 3. Some Trends in Homicide and Its Age-Crime Curves
  • 4. Social and Legal Responses to Homicide
  • Part II: Understanding Different Forms of Homicide
  • 5. Gang Homicide in the United States
  • 6. Drug-Related Homicide
  • 7. Sexual Homicide
  • 8. When Women are Murdered
  • 9. Women Murdered in the Name of “Honor”
  • 10. Hate and Homicide
  • 11. Infanticide
  • 12. Parricide Encapsulated
  • 13. Corporate Homicide, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Human Rights
  • 14. Empirical Challenges to Studying Terrorism and Homicide
  • 15. Multiple Homicide
  • 16. Genocide and State-Sponsored Killing
  • Part III: Homicide around the Globe
  • 17. Homicide in Europe
  • 18. Comparing Characteristics of Homicides in Finland, the Netherlands, and Sweden
  • 19. Homicide in Britain
  • 20. Homicide in Canada
  • 21. Typifying American Exceptionalism: Homicide in the USA
  • 22. Homicide in Japan
  • 23. Homicide in Australia and New Zealand
  • 24. Drivers of Homicide in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • 25. Homicide in Russia
  • 26. Understanding Homicide in China
  • 27. Homicide in India
  • 28. Homicide in South Africa
  • Part IV: Investigating Homicide
  • 29. Technology and Homicide Investigation
  • 30. Solving Homicides
  • 31. Using DNA in the Investigation of Homicide
  • 32. Cold Case Homicide Reviews
  • 33. A Damning Cascade of Investigative Errors
  • Part V: Reducing and Preventing Homicide
  • 34. Seeing and Treating Violence as a Health Issue
  • 35. Identifying and Intervening in Homicide Networks
  • 36. Focused Deterrence and the Reduction of Gang Homicide
  • 37. From Theory to Practice
  • 38. Preventing Homicide