Understanding Homicide
- ISBN-10
- 0761947558
- ISBN-13
- 9780761947554
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 355
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-02-16
- Publisher
- SAGE
- Author
- Fiona Brookman
Description
This comprehensive and challenging text unravels the phenomenon of homicide. In introducing the broad spectrum of different features, aspects and forms of homicide, Fiona Brookman examines its patterns and trends, how it may be explained, its investigation and how it may be prevented.
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