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Record ID marc_loc_updates/v35.i21.records.utf8:21033947:1742
Source Library of Congress
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LEADER: 01742nam a22002658a 4500
001 2007020777
003 DLC
005 20070518134318.0
008 070517s2007 cou b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007020777
020 $a9781588265142 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a9781588265395 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aHV6515$b.W33 2007
082 00 $a364.152$222
100 1 $aWaters, Tony.
245 10 $aWhen killing is a crime /$cTony Waters.
260 $aBoulder, Colo. :$bLynne Rienner Publishers,$c2007.
263 $a0711
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe criminalization of killing -- The invention of murder : killing and the law. Case study: legitimizing the third party : Albanian blood revenge. Case study: vigilante justice in Skidmore, Missouri. Case study: death by python : the deaths of the Girl Comfort and Samuel Betta -- The ecology of violence : from hurt feelings to fatal blows. Case study: notes on the murders of thirty of my neighbors. Case study: the trials of W.T.C "Rough" Elliott. Case study: deadly "cafeteria crime" among the mien of Sacramento -- Societies respond to killers : the need for catharsis and outrage. Case study: vigilantism in a Tanzanian village. Case study: massacre in a Chinese labor camp. Case study: the case of the exploding Pinto -- When the state kills : execution, war, and genocide. Case study: war crimes tribunals, genocide, and Rwanda. Case study: death in the Congo Free State. Case study: the Milgram experiment and obedience -- Understanding the sociology of killing.
650 0 $aMurder$vCase studies.
650 0 $aHomicide$vCase studies.
650 0 $aManslaughter$vCase studies.