
Homicide
Foundations of Human Behavior
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 12. October 2017
Book
Hardback
342 pages
978-1-138-52520-7 (ISBN)
Description
The human race spends a disproportionate amount of attention, money, and expertise in solving, trying, and reporting homicides, as compared to other social problems. The public avidly consumes accounts of real-life homicide cases, and murder fiction is more popular still. Nevertheless, we have only the most rudimentary scientific understanding of who is likely to kill whom and why. Martin Daly and Margo Wilson apply contemporary evolutionary theory to analysis of human motives and perceptions of self-interest, considering where and why individual interests conflict, using well-documented murder cases. This book attempts to understand normal social motives in murder as products of the process of evolution by natural selection. They note that the implications for psychology are many and profound, touching on such matters as parental affection and rejection, sibling rivalry, sex differences in interests and inclinations, social comparison and achievement motives, our sense of justice, lifespan developmental changes in attitudes, and the phenomenology of the self. This is the first volume of its kind to analyze homicides in the light of a theory of interpersonal conflict. Before this study, no one had compared an observed distribution of victim-killer relationships to "expected" distribution, nor asked about the patterns of killer-victim age disparities in familial killings. This evolutionary psychological approach affords a deeper view and understanding of homicidal violence.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
650 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-52520-7 (9781138525207)
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Persons
Martin Daly, Margo Wilson
Content
Preface, Acknowledgments, 1. Homicide and Human Nature, 2. Killing Kinfolks, 3. Killing Children: I. Infanticide in the Ethnographic Record, 4. Killing Children: II. Parental Homicide in the Modern West, 5. Parricide: Killing Parents, 6. Altercations and Honor, 7. Why Men and Not Women?, 8. The Logic of Same-Sex Conflict, 9. Till Death Us Do Part, 10. Retaliation and Revenge, 11. Calling the Killers to Account, 12. On Cultural Variation, Summary and Concluding Comments, References, Index