When Men Kill

This book describes various patterns of homicide that involve men killing women and other men.

Klappentext

When Men Kill will sharpen international understanding of homicide, and the comprehensive classification scheme it develops will be of interest and importance to criminologists everywhere.

Zusammenfassung
This book describes various patterns of homicide that involve men killing women and other men.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. An approach to the study of homicide; 3. Scenarios of masculine violence in the context of sexual intimacy; 4. Confrontational homicide; 5. Taking exceptional risks: homicide in the course of other crime; 6. Homicide as a form of conflict resolution; 7. Rounding out the picture of homicide; 8. Problems in the study of victim-offender relationships; 9. Towards a theoretical analysis of homicide; References; Index.