The first dedicated textbook for Criminology students studying homicide.
As the authors explain, criminal homicide is but one form of lethal
violence victims may suffer, leading them to describe a much broader
range of scenarios. Ranging from murder to manslaughter to State
killings, genocide and disasters involving victims of public policy,
corporate crime or shortcomings in health and safety, Making Sense of
Homicide re-positions discussion of the topic for those wishing to see
beyond routine media hype and ill-informed poplar discourse.
The book also contains a special expert contribution by former Police
Superintendent Ronald Winch about how the UK police investigate homicide
including fundamental requirements and pitfalls.
Making Sense of Homicide ranges in scope from serial killing to mass
and spree homicide and across the jurisdictions of the UK, USA and other
countries. Also interweaved in this key resource are acutely observed
accounts of the Holocaust, capital punishment and homicide within a
consumer society.
The authors explain the categories within which homicide is
conventionally discussed, as well as crimes of the powerful and those
made opaque for political, economic or other questionable purposes,
making the work one of immense value to anyone wishing to see violence
through a new lens.
With a Foreword by Professor David Wilson.
