When killing is a crime
By: Tony Waters.
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781588265142; 9781588265395
Subjects: Murder -- Case studies; Homicide -- Case studies; Manslaughter -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The criminalization of killing; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: Understanding the sociology of killing.