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Homicide examines the incidence and prevalence of homicide in major western nations, covering the biological, psychological and social roots of homicide from genetic and evolutionary perspectives, but also considering emotions and the influence of peers. Different types of homicide are discussed, with final chapters covering tactics for investigation and homicide prevention. Students and instructors in the areas of forensic science, sociology, criminology, psychology, psychiatry, justice and criminal justice at the university level will find this book to be a comprehensive resource, as will those researching homicide and related topics. --
Murder. --- Criminal homicide --- Killing (Murder) --- Homicide
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Homicide --- Homicide. --- Mord --- Zeitschrift --- Femicide --- Periodikum --- Zeitschriften --- Ermordung --- Morde --- Mordtat --- Offenses against the person --- Violent deaths --- Presse --- Fortlaufendes Sammelwerk --- Tötung --- Attentat --- Mörder --- Tötung --- Mörder
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Nordic Homicide in Deep Time draws a unique and detailed picture of developments in human interpersonal violence and presents new findings on rates, patterns, and long-term changes in lethal violence in the Nordics. Conducted by an interdisciplinary team of criminologists and historians, the book analyses homicide and lethal violence in northern Europe in two eras – the 17th century and early 21st century. Similar and continuous societal structures, cultural patterns, and legal cultures allow for long-term and comparative homicide research in the Nordic context. Reflecting human universals and stable motives, such as revenge, jealousy, honour, and material conflicts, homicide as a form of human behaviour enables long-duration comparison. By describing the rates and patterns of homicide during these two eras, the authors unveil continuity and change in human violence. Where and when did homicide typically take place? Who were the victims and the offenders, what where the circumstances of their conflicts? Was intimate partner homicide more prevalent in the early modern period than in present times? How long a time elapsed from violence to death? Were homicides often committed in the context of other crime? The book offers answers to these questions among others, comparing regions and eras. We gain a unique and empirically grounded view on how state consolidation and changing routines of everyday life transformed the patterns of criminal homicide in Nordic society. The path to pacification was anything but easy, punctuated by shorter crises of social turmoil, and high violence. The book is also a methodological experiment that seeks to assess the feasibility of long-duration standardized homicide analysis and to better understand the logic of homicide variation across space and over time. In developing a new approach for extending homicide research into the deep past, the authors have created the Historical Homicide Monitor. The new instrument combines wide explanatory scope, measurement standardization, and articulated theory expression. By retroactively expanding research data to the pre-statistical era, the method enables long-duration comparison of different periods and areas. Based on in-depth source critique, the approach captures patterns of criminal behaviour, beyond the control activity of the courts. The authors foresee the application of their approach in even remoter periods. Nordic Homicide in Deep Time helps the reader to understand modern homicide by revealing the historical continuities and changes in lethal violence. The book is written for professionals, university students and anyone interested in the history of human behaviour.
Violent crimes. --- Homicide. --- Femicide --- Offenses against the person --- Violent deaths --- Crimes, Violent --- Crimes of violence --- Crime --- Violence --- Northern Europe --- Early modern period --- Criminology --- History --- Homicide
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Family violence --- Homicide. --- Prevention. --- Femicide --- Offenses against the person --- Violent deaths
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Homicide has many social and psychological implications that vary from culture to culture and which change as people accept new ideas concerning guilt, responsibility, and the causes of crime. A study of attitudes toward homicide is therefore a method of examining social values in a specific setting. Homicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860 is the first book to contrast psychological assumptions of imaginative writers with certain social and intellectual currents in an attempt to integrate social attitudes toward such diverse subjects as human evil, moral responsibility, criminal insanity, social causes of crime, dueling, lynching, the "unwritten law" of a husband's revenge, and capital punishment. In addition to works of literary distinction by Cooper, Hawthorne, Irving, and Poe, among others, Davis considers a large body of cheap popular fiction generally ignored in previous studies of the literature of this period. This is an engrossing study of fiction as a reflection of and a commentary on social problems and as an influence shaping general beliefs and opinions.
Homicide in literature. --- American fiction --- Literature and society --- Didactic fiction, American --- Social values in literature. --- Murder in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Literature: history & criticism
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"Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Femicide, the killing of women and girls because of their gender, was until recently included in the category ‘homicide’, obscuring the special features of this social and gendered phenomenon. However, the majority of murders of women are perpetrated by men whom they know from family ties and are the result of intimate partner violence or so-called 'honour' killings.This book is the first one on femicide in Europe and presents the findings of a four-year project discussing various aspects of femicide. Written by leading international scholars with an interdiscplinary perspective, it looks at the prevention programmes and comparative quantitative and qualitative data collection, as well as the impact of culture. It proposes the establishment of a European Observatory on Femicide as a new direction for the future, showing the benefits of cross-national collaboration, united to prevent the murder of women and girls."
Women --- Crimes against --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- European Observatory --- Femicide --- Gender-related killing --- Homicide --- Honour killings --- Intimate partner violence --- Policy
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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.
Violent crimes. --- Homicide. --- Femicide --- Offenses against the person --- Violent deaths --- Crimes, Violent --- Crimes of violence --- Crime --- Violence --- Civilization, Modern. --- Social Science --- Crime & criminology. --- Criminology. --- Modern civilization --- Modernity --- Civilization --- Renaissance --- History
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Gays in the performing arts --- Homosexuality in the theater --- American drama --- Gays in literature. --- Homosexuality in literature. --- Homicide in literature. --- Theater --- Performing arts --- History and criticism. --- Gay people in the performing arts --- Gay people in literature.
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This lab manual provides information, examples, and exercises for all aspect of crime scene investigation. The exercises will teach the proper techniques for securing, documenting, and searching a crime scene, how to visualize or enhance the evidence found, how to package and preserve the evidence, and how to reconstruct what happened at the crime scene. This manual is intended to accompany any textbook in crime scene investigation. Written by a former crime scene investigator and forensic scientist, the information is practical, straightforward, and will be immediately applicable. Learn a
Crime scene searches. --- Criminal investigation. --- Homicide investigation. --- Forensic pathology. --- Forensic sciences. --- Crime detection --- Crime investigation --- Criminal investigations --- Detection of crime --- Investigations --- Law enforcement --- Crime scenes --- Detectives --- Forensic sciences --- Suspects (Criminal investigation) --- Crime scene investigations --- Searches of crime scenes --- Criminal investigation --- Informers
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The volume focuses on litigation damages, economic and non-economic, including punitive damages; their definitions, calculations, and assignments in the US and EU. The objective is to examine areas of convergence and divergence in the academic and practical treatment of damages issues in the US and EU. Many of the chapters in the volume are drawn from the papers and discussions generated at the Trans-Atlantic Dialogue meetings of the National Association of Forensic Economics that began in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2004. That meeting focused on the development of the 'Ogden' multipliers for calculating damages mandated for consideration by UK Courts in 1999. The 2005 meetings (Dublin, Ireland) centred on Markov methodologies used in the US for generating work-life tables and their adoption into damages multipliers, punitive damages, and the process of Irish tort reform. In 2006 discussions in Florence, Italy, focused on methods for calculating non-economic damages in the US and EU as well as the process of harmonization of tort law within the EU. Most recently, the 2007 discussions in Barcelona, Spain, dealt with comparisons of scheduled damages systems in the US and the EU.
Damages. --- Personal injuries. --- Wrongful death. --- Death by wrongful act --- Injuries (Law) --- Liability for personal injuries --- Personal injuries --- Damages --- Measure of damages --- Law and legislation --- Homicide --- Torts --- Accident law --- Employers' liability --- Compensation (Law) --- Obligations (Law) --- Set-off and counterclaim --- Negligence --- Law --- Personal injury. --- Torts. --- Civil wrongs --- Delicts --- Quasi delicts --- Wrongful acts --- Actions and defenses --- Liability (Law) --- Reasonable care (Law)
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