The Handbook of Homicide

The Handbook of Homicide presents a comprehensive collection of original essays by renowned experts and scholars from around the world, exploring the nature, causes, and patterns of homicide, as well as policies and practices for its investigation and prevention. It offers novel insights into the significant range and complexity of homicide in its myriad forms and includes chapters on homicide in regions of the world and types of homicide that are often overlooked in existing literature.  Theoretical and research–based insights are presented to help explain global variations in crime rates, and shifting patterns and trends. Further chapters explore specific types of homicide including: gang, drug–related, sexual homicides, honor and hate killings, infanticide, terrorism, and genocide. This Handbook also examines the latest approaches utilized by police agencies and forensic science labs to investigate homicide cases, and covers the state–of–the–art research currently available to reduce and prevent homicide.

The Handbook of Homicide provides an indispensable source of information on all aspects of the extremely complex global phenomenon that represents the most serious form of violent crime.

Fiona Brookman is Professor of Criminology at the University of South Wales, UK. She is the author of Understanding Homicide (2005) and co–editor of the Handbook on Crime (2010).  She has writtenover fifty articles and chapters on various themes related to violence and homicide. 

Edward R. Maguire is Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Associate Director in the Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety at Arizona State University, USA. He has written or edited four books and more than seventy articles and chapters on various themes related to policing, violence, research methodology, and comparative criminology.

Mike Maguire is Part–Time Professor of Criminology at the University of South Wales, UK and Professor Emeritus at Cardiff University, UK. He is co–editor of the Oxford Handbook of Criminology (5 th edition, 2012), and is a long–standing member of the Correctional Services Accreditation and Advice Panel.