In recent years, there has been a surge in school shootings, workplace homicides, hate violence, and deadly terrorist attacks in the United States. This has resulted in a greater focus on homicidal behavior, its antecedents, ways to recognize warning signs of at-risk victims and offenders, and preventive measures. It has also led to increased efforts by lawmakers to create and pass tough crime legislation as well as improved federal, state, and local law enforcement response to murder and other violent crimes. The Dynamics of Murder: Kill or Be Killed is a multifaceted...
In recent years, there has been a surge in school shootings, workplace homicides, hate violence, and deadly terrorist attacks in the United States....
This study of the relations between youth and serious (often violent) crime considers the prevalence and varieties of juvenile offenses, its biological, psychological and social aspects, the place of young offenders in the justice system, and social responses to juvenile crime. Specific chapters focus on drugs, crime at school, gangs, dating violen
This study of the relations between youth and serious (often violent) crime considers the prevalence and varieties of juvenile offenses, its biologica...