Making Sense of Homicide

Dr Adam Lynes, Professor Elizabeth Yardley and Lucas Danos all teach at Birmingham City University, one of the UK's leading centres of Criminology where their existing publications have attracted considerable acclaim. Ronald Winch spent over 30 years in the police including investigating homicide and other serious, major and complex crimes. Together they bring straightforward and refreshing perspectives to a sometimes hard to understand and often disquieting topic.

• Foreword by David Wilson. What is Homicide?; Single Homicide; Explanations of Homicide; Serial Homicide; Mass and Spree Homicide; Genocide; Death at the Hands of the State; The Business of Homicide; Homicide and Consumer Society; Homicide Investigation - The Detective's Perspective; Conclusion; Index.

'This is an interesting and stimulating read and I would recommend it to anyone studying criminology; I could not put it down. Even if you just have an interest in the subject, this book dismisses media misrepresentations of homicide, offering accurate facts, trends and explanations.'-- Law Society Gazette; 'It is no small feat to offer such robust understandings of homicide ... A judicious and much needed collection at a time in which our existence is evermore enveloped by aspects of death, despair and homicide in all its various malignant forms.'- Professor David Wilson (from the Foreword).