Extreme Killing (eBook)

Understanding Serial and Mass Murder

James Alan Fox, Jack Levin, Emma E. Fridel (Autoren)

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2023 | 5., Fifth Edition
392 Seiten
Sage Publications (Verlag)
978-1-0718-6264-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Accessibly written, yet analytically rich, Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder, is renowned for its fascinating examination of historical and contemporary serial and mass murder. Authors and experts in the field, James Alan Fox, Jack Levin, and Emma Fridel, bring their years of research to bear in this fascinating analysis of serial, multiple, and mass murder. They examine the theories of criminal behavior and apply them to a multitude of tragic events that involve hate crimes, killings at religious services, music festivals, and school shootings.  This Fifth Edition is filled with contemporary and classic case studies and has been updated to include coverage of controversial issues such as gun control and mental illness, the role of high-powered weapons in mass shootings, and the distinction between serial and mass murder.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.4.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Criminological Theory • Emma E. Fridel • Extreme Killing • hate crimes • homicide • Jack Levin • James Alan Fox • Mass murder • Mass shooting • school shooting • serial killing • Serial Murder • Violence
• ISBN-10: 1-0718-6264-2 / 1071862642
• ISBN-13: 978-1-0718-6264-3 / 9781071862643