MURDER, AT THE END OF THE DAY AND NIGHT is a multifaceted probe of murder offenses, offenders, victims, and characteristics of homicide in American society. Within this context, the focus will be on examining the nature and causes of murder, the relationship between firearms and lethal violence, the criminal justice system and homicide offenders, different types of murders and murderers, antecedents and correlates to homicidal and violent behavior, and a theoretical basis for murder. The book is divided into six parts. Part I examines the dynamics of murder including its nature; guns, substance abuse, and murder; and murder offending and the criminal justice system. Part II explores domestic murder such as intimate homicide, infanticide, parricide, and other family involved homicides. Part III discusses interpersonal and societal murder crimes including workplace homicides, bias-motivated homicides, and terrorism and murder. Part IV focuses on youth and murder including youth gangs and homicide and school killings. Part V examines particular categories of killers including sexual killers, serial killers, mass murderers, and self-killers. Part VI explores theories on murder. Tables and figures accompany the text throughout the book to illustrate major points. A complete index is also provided for simple access to information and material found in the text. The text should be a useful resource for law enforcement professionals, criminal justice students, mental health experts, social workers, and those in the educational arena.
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R. Barri Flowers is an award winning, bestselling author of mystery, thriller, suspense, and romance novels, along with true crime and criminology books, and short fiction. His novels include a brand new eBook private eye mystery, DEAD IN THE ROSE CITY. There is also a print edition available of this title.
Thrillers by the author include, STATE'S EVIDENCE, JUSTICE SERVED, and PERSUASIVE EVIDENCE. Flowers is the editor of the American Crime Writers League mystery anthology, MURDER PAST, MURDER PRESENT and has a noir tale, "The Wrong End of a Gun," in SEATTLE NOIR.
As a nonfiction crime writer, the author's latest book titles include PROSTITUTION IN THE DIGITAL AGE, STREET KIDS, COLLEGE CRIME, and FEMALE CRIME, CRIMINALS AND CELLMATES.
Under the pseudonym, Devon Vaughn Archer, the author has also penned several bestselling mainstream and romance novels, including THE SECRETS OF PARADISE BAY, CHRISTMAS DIAMONDS, KISSING THE MAN NEXT DOOR, DESTINED TO MEET, CHRISTMAS HEAT, and LOVE ONCE AGAIN.
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