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This thoroughly revised and updated text is about the circumstances in which people kill one another. Authored by renowned experts, WILL TO KILL, THE: MAKING SENSE OF SENSELESS MURDER, 4/e 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."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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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, IndianaUniversity, 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.
New topics include:
Media coverage
Murder - Suicides
Physician-assisted deaths
“Medicide”
Homegrown forms of terrorism
DNA testing
Behavioral profiling
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