Research Catalog

Title

Rethinking homicide : exploring the structure and process underlying deadly situations / Terance D. Miethe, Wendy C. Regoeczi with assistance from Kriss A. Drass.

Author

Miethe, Terance D.

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Regoeczi, Wendy C., 1972-
• Drass, Kriss A., 1953-

Description

xxii, 320 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in criminology

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in criminology (Cambridge University Press)

Subject

• Homicide > Research > United States
• Criminology > United States
• Crime > United States > Sociological aspects
• Homicide > United States > History
• Murder > United States > History

Genre/Form

• Electronic books.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-306) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: studying homicide situations -- Theoretical development -- Data and methodology for studying homicide situations -- The empirical distribution of homicide -- Instrumental and expressive motives in homicide situations -- Gender differences in the structure of homicide situations -- Change and stability in the structure of youth homicide -- Racial differences in homicide situations -- Victim/offender relationships -- Conclusions and implications.

ISBN

• 0521832993 (hbk.)
• 0521540585 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2003053293

OCLC

• 52374505
• SCSB-10491406

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library