Brookman / Maguire The Handbook of Homicide

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-118-92449-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 752 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Handbooks in Criminology

The Handbook of Homicide presents a series of original essays by renowned authors from around the world, reflecting the latest scholarship on the nature, causes, and patterns of homicide, as well as policies and practices for its investigation and prevention.
* Includes comprehensive coverage of the complex phenomenon of homicide and its various forms
* Features original contributions from an esteemed team of global experts and scholars with chapters highlighting the authors' original research
* Represents the first internationally-focused collection of the latest research on the nature and causes of homicide
* Covers both the causes and dynamics of homicide, as well as policies and practices intended to address it

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brookman, Fiona

Maguire, Edward R.

Maguire, Mike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1. Murderous Thoughts: Examining the Macro, Micro and Momentary in Accounting for Fatal Violence
Martin Innes, Sarah Tucker, and Helen Innes
2. Global Patterns and Trends in Homicide
Meghan L. Rogers, and William Alex Pridemore
3. Some Trends in Homicide and Its Age-Crime Curves
Alfred Blumstein
4. Social and Legal Responses to Homicide
Mark Cooney
5. Gang Homicide in the United States: What we Know and future research directions
Jesenia M. Pizzaro
6. Drug-Related Homicide
Sean Varano, and Joseph B. Kuhns
7. Sexual homicide: A Review of Recent Empirical Evidence (2008 to 2015)
Oliver Chan
8. When Women are Murdered
Rebecca E. Dobash and Russell P. Dobash
9. Women Murdered in the Name of "Honour"
Aisha K. Gill
10. Hate and Homicide: Exploring the extremes of prejudice-motivated violence
Nathan Hall
11. Infanticide
Carl P. Malmquist
12. Parricide Encapsulated
Kathleen M. Heide
13. Corporate Homicide, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Human Rights
Gary Slapper
14. Empirical Challenges to Studying Terrorism and Homicide
Joseph K. Young, and Erin M. Kearns
15. Multiple Homicide: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder
Jack Levin, and James Alan Fox
16. Genocide & State Sponsored Killing
Andy Aydyn-Aitchison
17. Homicide in Europe
Marieke Liem
18. Comparing characteristics of homicides in Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden
Soenita M. Ganpat
19. Homicide in Britain
Fiona Brookman, Helen Jones and Sophie Pike
20.Homicide in Canada
Myrna Dawson
21. Typifying American Exceptionalism: Homicide in the USA
Amanda L. Robinson & Christopher D. Maxwell
22. Homicide in Japan
Tom Ellis and Koichi Hamai
23. Homicide in Australia and New Zealand: Precursors and Prevention
Paul Mazerolle, Li Eriksson, Richard Wortley, and Holly Johnson
24. Drivers of Homicide in Latin America and the Caribbean
Erik Alda
25. Homicide in Russia: Issues of measuring and theoretical explanations
Alexandra V. Lysova, and Nikolay G. Shchitov
26. Understanding Homicide in China
Liqun Cao
27. Homicide in India: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Jaishankar Karuppannan and Debarati Halder
28. Homicide in South Africa
Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard
29. Technology and Homicide Investigation
Patrick Brady, and William King
30. Solving Homicide: Trends, Causes, and Ways to Improve
Charles Wellford, and Thomas S. Alexander
31. Using DNA in the Investigation of Homicide: Scientific, Operational and Evidential Considerations
Robin Williams
32. Cold Case Homicide Investigation
Cheryl Allsop
33. A Damning Cascade of Investigative Errors: Flaws in Homicide Investigation in the USA
Deborah Davis, and Richard Leo
34. Seeing and Treating Violence as a Health Issue
Charles Ranford, and Gary Slutkin
35. Identifying and Intervening in Homicide Networks
Andrew Fox, and Olivia R. Allen
36. Focused deterrence and the Reduction of Gang Homicide
Anthony Braga
37. From Theory to Practice: Reducing Gun Violence and Homicide in Detroit
Eric Grommon, John D. McCluskey, and Timothy S. Bynum
38. Preventing Homicide
Edward R. Maguire
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fiona Brookman is Professor of Criminology at the University of South Wales, UK. She is the author of Understanding Homicide (2005) and co-editor of Handbook on Crime (2010). She has written over fifty articles and chapters on various themes related to violence and homicide.
Edward R. Maguire is Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Associate Director in the Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety at Arizona State University, USA. He has written or edited four books and more than seventy articles and chapters on various themes related to policing, violence, research methodology, and comparative criminology.
Mike Maguire is Part-Time Professor of Criminology at the University of South Wales, UK and Professor Emeritus at Cardiff University, UK. He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (5th edition, 2012), and is a long-standing member of the Correctional Services Accreditation and Advice Panel.