Why We Kill

Understanding Violence Across Cultures and Disciplines

By: Nancy Loucks (Editor), Sally Smith Holt (Editor), Joanna R. Adler (Editor)

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Hardcover | 31 March 2020 | Edition Number 2

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236 Pages

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21.6 x 13.8 x 1.42

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Why We Kill examines violence in many of its manifestations, exploring how culture plays a role in people's understanding of violent action.

Fully updated, with new chapters covering more conventional forms of homicide and mass shootings in the USA, this book examines psychological, ethical, political, and moral justifications for extremes in human behaviour. It augments international a debate on a myriad of forms of killing, including Infanticide, serial killings, war, terrorism, abortion, honour killings, euthanasia, suicide bombings and genocide, and discusses the different types of killing and how people are able to maintain apparent contradictions in their moral beliefs. Each chapter presents a full picture of their subjects and many sides of the debate in order to increase readers' understanding of the discussion, regardless of their own perspectives.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of criminology, psychology, sociology, politics, law and religion.

Industry Reviews

"This is an interesting and provocative book which will prove useful for readers in all areas of academic study.... The interdisciplinary approach coupled with varying types of killing provides a fresh outlook on why individuals kill in the first instance. Why We Kill is enthusiastically recommended to anyone interested in the study of killing or fascinated with the reasons for, and justifications of, why people behave the way they do."

- Rachelle M. Larocque, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, in The Howard Journal 49(5), December 2010 (review of the first edition)

"The essays are consistently informed and insightful, and the editors have succeeded in exploring the 'contextual, multi-layered and complex manifestations' of killing in this timely volume that will be useful to scholars and accessible to general readers. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries."

- Lloyd Steffen, Professor of Religion Studies and Director, Center for Dialogue, Ethics and Spirituality, Lehigh University, in CHOICE 47(11), July 2010 (review of the first edition)

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