You are here

Studying and Preventing Homicide
Share

Studying and Preventing Homicide
Issues and Challenges

Edited by:

Courses:
Homicide

September 1998 | 320 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

A comprehensive exploration, Studying and Prevention of Homicide offers thoroughly researched chapters by a distinguished group of contributors. Leading scholars in the field, editors M. Dwayne Smith and Margaret A. Zahn have compiled an extensive range of topics including: mass and serial murders, homicides by youth, gang homicides, domestic homicides, homicides by female offenders, and alcohol/drug related homicides.


 
PART ONE: THE STUDY OF HOMICIDE
M Dwayne Smith and Margaret A Zahn
Introduction
Margaret A Zahn and Patricia L McCall
Homicide in the 20th Century United States
Trends and Patterns

 
Marc Riedel
Sources of Homicide Data
 
PART TWO: SPECIAL ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF HOMICIDE
Angela Browne, Kirk R Williams and Donald Dutton
Homicide Between Intimate Partners
James Alan Fox and Jack Levin
Serial Murder
Myths and Realities

 
Kathleen Auerhahn and Robert Nash Parker
Drugs, Alcohol, and Homicide
Gary LaFree
Homicide
Cross-National Perspectives

 
 
PART THREE: ISSUES INVOLVING HOMICIDE AMONG DIFFERENT SOCIAL GROUPS
Darnell F Hawkins
African Americans and Homicide
Ramiro Martinez Jr and Matthew T Lee
Latinos and Homicide
Kathleen M Heide
Youth Homicide
Cheryl Maxson
Gang Homicide
 
PART FOUR: PREVENTING HOMICIDE: PROPOSED STRATEGIES
William C Bailey and Ruth D Peterson
Capital Punishment, Homicide, and Deterrence
An Assessment of the Evidence

 
Philip J Cook and Mark H Moore
Guns, Gun Control, and Homicide
James A Mercy and W Rodney Hammond
Preventing Homicide
A Public Health Perspective

 

For instructors

Select a Purchasing Option


Rent or Buy eBook
ISBN: 9781452251370

Hardcover
ISBN: 9780761907671
$151.00

Paperback
ISBN: 9780761907688
$95.00

This title is also available on SAGE Knowledge, the ultimate social sciences online library. If your library doesn’t have access, ask your librarian to start a trial.