In this engaging and accessible book, Brookman draws upon several decades of her own research on homicide and violence, including ethnographic research on homicide investigation in the UK and USA and interviews with violent offenders, in order to unravel the characteristics and causes of homicide, how police and forensic scientists investigate it and how it can be prevented.
Synthesising bespoke new analysis of the Home Office Homicide Index with case studies of homicides and international debate and literature, this comprehensive textbook will be a valuable resource for students studying homicide, violence, its investigation and responses to it, as well as researchers and practitioners interested in homicide and violence.

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Understanding Homicide
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Publisher
SAGE Publications LtdYear
2021Print ISBN
9781526487452
9781526487469
Edition
2eBook ISBN
9781529766196
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Publisher Note
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Illustration List
- Table List
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Placing Homicide in Context
- 1 Deconstructing Homicide
- 2 Homicide Rates, Trends and Characteristics1
- Part II Explanations of Homicide
- 3 Biological Explanations of Homicide
- 4 Psychological Explanations of Homicide
- 5 Sociological Explanations of Homicide
- Part III Making Sense of Particular Forms of Homicide
- 6 Homicide among Males
- 7 Femicide
- 8 When Women Kill Men
- 9 The Killing of Children
- 10 Corporate Homicide
- Part IV Dealing with Homicide
- 11 The Investigation of Homicide
- 12 Preventing Homicide
- Appendix The Research Data
- References
- Index
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