342 Pages
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Routledge
342 Pages
by
Routledge
342 Pages
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Routledge
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The human race spends a disproportionate amount of attention, money, and expertise in solving, trying, and reporting homicides, as compared to other social problems. The public avidly consumes accounts of real-life homicide cases, and murder fiction is more popular still. Nevertheless, we have only the most rudimentary scientific understanding of who is likely to kill whom and why. Martin Daly and... Read more
Preface, Acknowledgments, 1. Homicide and Human Nature, 2. Killing Kinfolks, 3. Killing Children: I. Infanticide in the Ethnographic Record, 4. Killing Children: II. Parental Homicide in the Modern West, 5. Parricide: Killing Parents, 6. Altercations and Honor, 7. Why Men and Not Women?, 8. The Logic of Same-Sex Conflict, 9. Till Death Us Do Part, 10. Retaliation and Revenge, 11. Calling the Killers to Account, 12. On Cultural Variation, Summary and Concluding Comments, References, Index
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Martin Daly, Margo Wilson
