When Killing Is a Crime / / Tony Waters.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Waters, Tony,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; CHAPTER 1 The Criminalization of Killing --; CHAPTER 2 The Invention of Murder: Killing and the Law --; CHAPTER 3 The Ecology of Violence: From Hurt Feelings to Fatal Blows --; CHAPTER 4 Societies Respond to Killers: The Need for Catharsis and Outrage --; CHAPTER 5 When the State Kills: Execution, War, and Genocide --; CHAPTER 6 Understanding the Sociology of Killing --; APPENDIX 1 The Statistics of Killing --; APPENDIX 2 Laws and Norms About Murder --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Book
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781685853709; 9783110784251
• DOI: 10.1515/9781685853709
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Tony Waters.

Taking another person's life is the crime for which every society reserves the strongest of punishments. But why (and when) is the act of killing sometimes defined as murder--as inexcusable--and other times considered a justifiable, or even righteous, act? Grappling with this ambiguity, Tony Waters sheds light on the sociology of murder. This innovative text draws on wide-ranging case studies of killing--from urban gangs in Washington, DC to the Salem witchcraft trials, from the "Wild West" to blood feuds in modern Albania, from dueling gentlemen to government-orchestrated mass executions to illustrate the process of criminalization. Along the way, it looks at both the microsociological level of the violent act itself and the macro level of society's reaction. When Killing Is a Crime will leave students with a clear understanding of how differences in culture, status, power, technology, and legal systems pattern violence and murder.