"Routledge Handbook Of Homicide Studies | Criminology & Criminal Justice

The Routledge Handbook of Homicide Studies comprehensively examines the topic of homicide from a diverse collection of perspectives and backgrounds. It brings together original contributions on homicide with a focus on the broad range of impacts of homicide from a multitude of disciplines that evaluate and examine homicide in actual practice and theory. The editors have assembled a comprehensive collection highlighting the multifaceted causes and ramifications of homicide both across the United States and globally with chapters exploring the current state of homicide typologies of homicides offenders causes and correlates of homicide homicides and the criminal justice system and a professional observations chapters authored by some of the leading practicing professionals in the world many of whom have made pivotal contributions to the evaluation and investigation of homicide offenders and cases. Providing state-of-the-art scholarship on homicide in modern society this handbook is a key collection and an invaluable resource for students researchers and practitioners engaged in the study of homicide across a diverse range of disciplines including criminal justice and criminology psychology sociology forensics interdisciplinary departments and sociolegal studies.|Routledge Handbook of Homicide Studies | Criminology & Criminal Justice