Synopses & Reviews
This thoroughly revised and updated text is about the circumstances in which people kill one another. Authored by renowned experts, WILL TO KILL, THE: MAKING SENSE OF SENSELESS MURDER, 4/e reviews homicide laws, introduces theories purporting to explain murder, and presents up-to-date statistical data identifying homicide patterns and trends. It covers topics ranging from domestic and workplace homicide to cult and hate killings; murder committed by juveniles to serial slayings. Finally, it examines criminal justice responses to homicide, including the strategies and tactics employed to apprehend, prosecute, and punish killers. Virtually every chapter in this edition has undergone significant revision. In particular, this edition reflects recent legislative changes and Supreme Court decisions, includes new case examples, and contains extensively expanded discussions of family and school homicide.
Table of Contents
1. The Lure and the Law of Homicide
2. Explaining the Will to Kill
3. The Killers and their Victims
4. Intimate and Family Murder
5. The Young and the Ruthless
6. Well-Schooled in Murder
7. Serial Killers
8. Medical Murder
9. Rampage
10. Hate Homicides
11. Murderous Terror
12. Cult Killings
13. Catching Killers
14. Getting Away with Murder, or Not