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Routledge Handbook of Homicide Studies
This book comprehensively examines the topic of homicide from a diverse collection of perspectives and backgrounds. It brings together original contributions on homicide, with a focus on the broad range of impacts of homicide from a multitude of disciplines that evaluate and examine homicide in actual practice and theory.
Author(s) | Edited by Kyle A. Burgason, Matt DeLisi (Iowa State University, USA). |
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Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Format | Hardback |
Pages | 968 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 28 Feb 2024 |
Availability | Not yet available |
This book comprehensively examines the topic of homicide from a diverse collection of perspectives and backgrounds. It brings together original contributions on homicide, with a focus on the broad range of impacts of homicide from a multitude of disciplines that evaluate and examine homicide in actual practice and theory.
1. Introduction Part I: Current State of Homicide 2. Global Trends in Homicide: A Comparison between the UNODC Homicide Data and the WHO Mortality Database 3. Latin American Homicide 4. Murder as Violent Extremism 5. The Coming Crisis in Criminal Justice:
Kyle A. Burgason, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of Graduate Education in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Iowa State University. His research interests include: policing, ethics in criminal justice, r