Concept information
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human development
mental health, mental disorders, and special groups
antisocial behavior
aggression
Preferred term
murder
Definition
- Murder and homicide are among the first terms to come to mind when Americans think about violent crime. Although both murder and homicide refer to instances in which one human being is killed by another, these terms are defined differently and evoke different responses from the legal system and society in general. [Source: Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment; Homicide and Murder]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- accidental killings
- aeronautical mass murder
- arrests for murder
- arson
- assassins
- capital punishment
- child homicide
- child killers
- death squads
- euthanasia
- familicide
- family homicide
- felony murder
- femicide
- genocide
- gynocide
- honor killings
- infanticide
- justifiable homicide
- juvenile murderers
- lust murder
- lynching and vigilante justice
- manslaughter
- marital murder
- mass murder
- mass violence
- medical murders
- methods of murder
- motivation for murder
- murder and firearms
- murder-suicide
- neonaticide
- paraphilias
- patricide
- perceptions of homicide
- poisoning (crime)
- poisoning: medical settings
- product tampering
- psychopaths
- rippers (serial murderers)
- school shootings
- serial killers, spree killers, and mass murderers
- serial murder
- sexual homicide
- signature murders
- spree murders
- team killers
- trophy taking
- types of homicide and degrees of murder
- vampires, werewolves, and witches
- vehicular homicide
- workplace homicide
Entry terms
- homicide
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/murder
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