Research Catalog

Title

Studying and preventing homicide : issues and challenges / M. Dwayne Smith, Margaret A. Zahn, editors.

Publication

Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c1999.

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Additional Authors

• Smith, M. Dwayne
• Zahn, Margaret A.

Description

vi, 314 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Homicide > Research > United States
• Homicide > United States > Prevention

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. The study of homicide. Homicide in the 20th-century United States : trends and patterns / Margaret A. Zahn and Patricia L. McCall -- Sources of homicide data / Marc Riedel. II. Special issues in the study of homicide. Homicide between intimate partners / Angela Browne, Kirk R. Williams, and Donald G. Dutton -- Serial murder : myths and realities / James Alan Fox and Jack Levin -- Drugs, alcohol, and homicide / Kathleen Auerhahn and Robert Nash Parker -- Homicide : cross-national perspectives / Gary LaFree. III. Issues involving homicide among different social groups. African Americans and homicide / Darnell F. Hawkins -- Latinos and homicide / Ramiro Martinez, Jr., and Matthew T. Lee -- Youth homicide / Kathleen M. Heide -- Gang homicide / Cheryl L. Maxson. IV. Preventing homicide : proposed strategies. Capital punishment, homicide, and deterrence : an assessment of the evidence / William C. Bailey and Ruth D. Peterson -- Guns, gun control, and homicide / Philip J. Cook and Mark H. Moore -- Preventing homicide : a public health perspective / James A. Mercy and W. Rodney Hammond.

ISBN

• 076190767X (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 0761907688 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^98025410^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library