When Killing Is a Crime / / 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 Wa...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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