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Studying and Preventing Homicide
Issues and Challenges

Edited by:

M. Dwayne Smith - Department of Sociology, University of South Florida, USA
Margaret A. Zahn - Sociology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh

Other Titles in:
Adults & Violence (General) | Aggression & Violence | Homicide

October 1998 | 320 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

Description
Contents

Beginning with an introduction that summarizes the social theories of homicide and the methodological issues in the study of homicide, this accessible volume focuses on various types of homicides 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

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