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Introduction: Homicide in Global Perspective |
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Part I: Homicide in Context |
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1 Murderous Thoughts: The Macro, Micro, and Momentary in Theorizing the Causes and Consequences of Criminal Homicide |
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2 Geographic and Temporal Variation in Cross-National Homicide Victimization Rates |
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3 Some Trends in Homicide and Its Age-Crime Curves |
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4 Social and Legal Responses to Homicide |
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Part II: Understanding Different Forms of Homicide |
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5 Gang Homicide in the United States: What We Know and Future Research Directions |
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73 | (16) |
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89 | (16) |
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7 Sexual Homicide: A Review of Recent Empirical Evidence (2008 to 2015) |
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105 | (26) |
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8 When Women are Murdered |
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131 | (18) |
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9 Women Murdered in the Name of "Honor" |
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149 | (16) |
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10 Hate and Homicide: Exploring the Extremes of Prejudice-Motivated Violence |
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165 | (15) |
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180 | (17) |
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12 Parricide Encapsulated |
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197 | (16) |
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13 Corporate Homicide, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Human Rights |
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213 | (18) |
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14 Empirical Challenges to Studying Terrorism and Homicide |
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231 | (18) |
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15 Multiple Homicide: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder |
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249 | (19) |
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16 Genocide and State-Sponsored Killing |
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Part III: Homicide around the Globe: International Perspectives |
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291 | (17) |
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18 Comparing Characteristics of Homicides in Finland, the Netherlands, and Sweden |
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308 | (12) |
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320 | (25) |
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345 | (23) |
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21 Typifying American Exceptionalism: Homicide in the USA |
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368 | (20) |
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388 | (24) |
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23 Homicide in Australia and New Zealand: Precursors and Prevention |
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412 | (20) |
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24 Drivers of Homicide in Latin America and the Caribbean: Does Relative Political Capacity Matter? |
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432 | (19) |
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25 Homicide in Russia: Issues of Measuring and Theoretical Explanations |
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451 | (16) |
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26 Understanding Homicide in China |
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467 | (19) |
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27 Homicide in India: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives |
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486 | (13) |
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28 Homicide in South Africa: Offender Perspectives on Dispute-related Killings of Men |
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Part IV: Investigating Homicide |
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29 Technology and Homicide Investigation |
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517 | (16) |
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30 Solving Homicides: Trends, Causes, and Ways to Improve |
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533 | (15) |
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31 Using DNA in the Investigation of Homicide: Scientific, Operational, and Evidential Considerations |
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548 | (18) |
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32 Cold Case Homicide Reviews |
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33 A Damning Cascade of Investigative Errors: Flaws in Homicide Investigation in the USA |
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Part V: Reducing and Preventing Homicide |
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34 Seeing and Treating Violence as a Health Issue |
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601 | (25) |
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35 Identifying and Intervening in Homicide Networks |
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626 | (17) |
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36 Focused Deterrence and the Reduction of Gang Homicide |
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37 From Theory to Practice: Reducing Gun Violence and Homicide in Detroit |
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