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The many faces of homicide
- Author: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- Main Title: Global Study on Homicide 2013 , pp 39-64
- Publication Date: August 2014
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18356/23fae0cb-en
- Language: English
The study of why people kill other people is vital from a policy perspective, as without such knowledge it is very difficult to implement appropriate strategies and policies for the prevention and reduction of homicide. A number of homicide types can be identified on the basis of elements such as premeditation, motivation, context, instrumentality and perpetrator-victim relationship, which all play roles of varying magnitudes in different forms of homicide. That said, developing homicide typologies is a complex business, not least because they sometimes overlap and, in real life, homicide drivers can be multiple. Indeed, further research and methodological work is needed to help develop a comprehensive categorization of homicide, but some of its typologies, which are particularly relevant from the crime prevention perspective, can already be identified in the following manner
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ISBN (PDF):
9789210542050
Book DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18356/c1241a80-en
Related Subject(s):
Drugs Crime and Terrorism
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