Why We Kill: Understanding Violence Across Cultures and Disciplines

Criminology, law, and psychology are the main disciplinary frameworks within which researchers explore the ethics of killing humans. They cover homicide in a domestic context, serial killing, whether capital punishment creates more victims, understanding the moral issues surrounding abortion, euthanasia, suicide, terrorism as a unique form of political violence, collective violence and war, and the rank and file killers of genocide in the massacre at Murambi. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)