When Men Kill: Scenarios of Masculine Violence

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Cambridge University Press, 25 de nov. 1994 - 222 pàgines
This book describes various patterns of homicide that involve men killing women and other men. A qualitative study, it eschews heavy use of statistics to focus on case studies. Kenneth Polk then establishes the themes that run through four specific "scenarios of violence." When Men Kill discusses the role of gender and class in homicide and raises a number of important policy issues. It also asks pertinent questions about the nature of masculinity. It will sharpen international understandings of homicide, while the comprehensive classification scheme it develops will be of importance to criminologists everywhere.
 

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Introduction
1
Procedure data and method
8
Scenarios of masculine violence in the context of sexual intimacy
27
Confrontational homicide
58
Taking exceptional risks homicide in the course of other crime
93
Homicide as a form of conflict resolution
113
Rounding out the picture of homicide
136
Problems in the study of victimoffender relationships
150
Towards a theoretical analysis of homicide
188
References
213
Index
218
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