Murder : social and historical approaches to understanding murder and murderers

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This book seeks to unravel the issues associated with the crime of murder, providing a highly accessible account of the subject for people coming to it for the first time. It uses detailed case studies as a way of exemplifying and exploring more general questions of socio-cultural responses to murder and their explanation. It incorporates a historical perspective which both provides some fascinating examples from the past and enables readers to gain a vision of what has changed and what has remained the same within those socio-cultural responses to murder. The book also embraces questions of r.  Read more... Abstract: Seeks to unravel the issues associated with the crime of murder, providing an account of the subject for people coming to it for the first time. This book uses detailed case studies as a way of exemplifying and exploring more general questions of socio-cultural responses to murder and their explanation.  Read more... Content: Front cover Copyright Contents Preface and acknowledgements 1. Cataloguing murder 2. Devils and demons: the social construction of murder and murderers 3. Murderous women 4. Murderous children 5. Murderous men: intimate and domestic killings 6. Murderous men: killing friends and acquaintances 7. Rendering them pathalogical References Index Back cover.