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Title Studying and preventing homicide : issues and challenges / M. Dwayne Smith, Margaret A. Zahn, editors
Published Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, [1999]
©1999

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Description 1 online resource (321 pages) : illustrations
Contents Part I. The study of homicide -- part II. Special issues in the study of homicide -- part II. Issues involving homicide among different social groups -- part IV. Preventing homicide : proposed strategies
Summary An introduction summarizes the social theories of homicide and the methodological issues in the study of homicide. This accessible volume then focuses on specific types of homicides including: mass and serial murders, homicides by youth, gang homicides, domestic homicides, homicides by female offenders, and alcohol/drug related homicides
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Homicide -- Research -- United States
Homicide -- United States -- Prevention
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Homicide -- Prevention
Homicide -- Research
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Smith, M. Dwayne
Zahn, Margaret A
ISBN 9781452251370
1452251371