Wicked Deeds
Subtitle: Murder in America
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: August 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780765802897
Subjects: Crime & criminology; True crime; Sociology; Murder; Social Science; USA; Sociology - General; Criminology; Murder - General; Manslaughter; United States
Description: "James O'Kane explores the phenomena of homicide, illustrating the journalists' "who, what, why, when, and where" of murder. He differentiates criminal homicide, such as murder in the first and second degree, from other types of killings, including legal and quasi-legal killings. These include suicide, abortion, accidental death, terrorism, and other non-criminal types of homicide, such as justifiable and excusable homicide. The author's focus is criminal homicide, and he uses age, sex, race, and socioeconomic status, as well as demographic data to explain ever-recurring patterns of murder in the United States."--Jacket.