The Murder Book: Examining Homicide

by Kimberly A. Davies

This book offers a holistic view of referencing theories from different disciplines (psychology, biology, sociology, criminology) and findings from different regions around the world. Using examples from all types of incidents, the book provides more realistic coverage because it includes not just the high profile cases shown in the media and in books. Encouraging a scholarly understanding of the topic, it devotes separate chapters to each type of homicide and includes unique chapters on solving homicides and processing homicides in court.

Genres: School

360 pages, Paperback

First published October 13, 2007

Reviews

[Lexie Darce · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good intro to the study of homicide and such - the stats are just very old (2008 or before)

[Tatiana Perilla · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book as it was one of my textbooks for my homicide class, and I absolutely loved it! It is very easy to get deeply absorbed in and I've never gotten into a textbook as much as I did this one. It led me to hours and hours of outside reading to supplement it. Not because the book was lacking, but because I was so interested I needed to read more. It would be great if a newer edition came out that has more up to date statistics.

[Kim Davies · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wrote this so it is very cheesy of me to put it on this. What I think is that is becoming dated as it is a textbook. But easy to read and understand

[Yu · Rating 2 out of 5]

BTK killer, real Russian Hannibal, and Sunday morning Slasher, etc. kind of cool bloody ..