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• Authors are world-renowned experts on the subject of homicide.

• Explores different sub-types of homicide and the circumstances in which people kill each other.

• Includes a focus on the extraordinary and seemingly inexplicable cases with the belief that the lessons learned can be extrapolated to more ordinary homicides as well.

• Case studies in each chapter use recent, well-known examples that are relevant to public policy. The authors discuss how politicians use high profile cases to change the criminal law or to secure funding for programs and policies to reduce violence, and how these high profile cases shape public opinion about homicide.

• Reviews homicide laws, presents statistical data depicting patterns and trends in homicide, and introduces theories purporting to explain why murder occurs.

• Covers a broad range of topics from domestic and workplace homicide to cult and hate killings, from murder committed by juveniles to serial slayings.

• Examines criminal justice responses to homicide, including the strategies and tactics employed to apprehend, prosecute, and punish killers.

New To This Edition

• Chapter 1 includes a more detailed discussion of the media coverage and fascination of violence.
• The discussion of theories of aggression and violence in Chapter 2, “Explaining Murder,” has been significantly revised to focus primarily on origins of violence and includes a review of the research and public policy issues surrounding guns, pornography, alcohol and drugs and their role as homicide facilitators.
• Chapter 4 “Intimate and Family Murder” includes many updated cases on such topics as of women who kill and murder-suicide cases.
• Chapter 8 “Medical Murder,” focuses on homicides committed within health care settings and the phenomenon of “medicide,” physician-assisted deaths, and gives much-needed attention to this increasingly publicized issue.
• Chapter 11, “Murderous Terror,” includes the tragic events of September 11th, 2001, and discusses recent cases of and issues concerning homegrown forms of terrorism.
• Chapter 13, “Catching Killers,” reviews a wide variety of investigative approaches, especially DNA testing and behavioral profiling as well as other cutting-edge forensic science techniques.

Table of Contents

1: The Lure and the Law of Homocide

2: Explaining Murder

3: Killers and Their Victims

4: Intimate and Family Murder

5: The Coming and Going of the Young Superpredators

6: Well-Schooled Murder

7: Serial Killers

8: Medical Murder

9: Rampage

10: Hate Homocides

11: Murderous Terror

12: Cult Killings

13: Catching Killers

14: Getting Away with Murder, or Not

Courses

Homicide/Murder  (Criminal Justice)
Issues in Criminal Justice/Special Topics  (Criminal Justice)
Violence  (Criminal Justice)

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  Fox, Levin & Quinet
  ©2012  |  Prentice Hall  |  Paper; 288 pp  |  Out of Stock
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  For undergraduate courses in homicide or violent behavior; and as a supplementary text for more general courses in criminology, deviance, and social problems.

   

  This thoroughly revised and updated text is about the circumstances in which people kill one another. Authored by renowned experts, it reviews homicide laws, introduces 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.

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The Will to Kill: Making Sense of Senseless Murder, 3/E

James Alan Fox, Northeastern University
Jack  Levin, Northeastern University
Kenna D Quinet, Indiana University, Purdue University, Indianapolis

ISBN-10:      0205516718
ISBN-13: 9780205516711
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

This best selling homicide text examines “the will to kill” from various perspectives.

Written by world-renowned experts, this text presents an analysis of the nature and extent of homicide and the laws that apply to it. Included are detailed analyses of many different types of homicide, including those that involve:  family, youth, serial killing, mass murder, school, hate, terror and cults.  Public policy issues such as the insanity defense, the death penalty and investigative strategies are also covered.

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