Understanding Homicide
eBook - ePub

Understanding Homicide

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Understanding Homicide

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Publisher Note
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Illustration List
  8. Table List
  9. About the Author
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Acknowledgements
  12. Part I Placing Homicide in Context
  13. 1 Deconstructing Homicide
  14. 2 Homicide Rates, Trends and Characteristics1
  15. Part II Explanations of Homicide
  16. 3 Biological Explanations of Homicide
  17. 4 Psychological Explanations of Homicide
  18. 5 Sociological Explanations of Homicide
  19. Part III Making Sense of Particular Forms of Homicide
  20. 6 Homicide among Males
  21. 7 Femicide
  22. 8 When Women Kill Men
  23. 9 The Killing of Children
  24. 10 Corporate Homicide
  25. Part IV Dealing with Homicide
  26. 11 The Investigation of Homicide
  27. 12 Preventing Homicide
  28. Appendix The Research Data
  29. References
  30. Index