1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786814703321

Autore

Bozeman J. Michael <1957->

Titolo

The common language of homicide and suicide : evidence of the value of Durkheim's typologies / / J. Michael Bozeman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

El Paso, Texas : , : LFB Scholarly Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-59332-765-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Collana

Criminal Justice Recent Scholarship

Disciplina

364.15201/4

Soggetti

Homicide

Suicide

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Bozeman's work appeals to sociologists, criminologists, psychiatrists and forensic linguists. His thesis is three-fold: to explore emergent themes in suicides and murder confessions, to determine whether Durkheim's suicide typologies might also be applicable to homicide (heretofore untested), and to expand upon the ""forces of production"" and ""forces of direction"" in the stream analogy of overall violence to include the coincident rise of both forces in what the author refers to as the stream-flood analogy. Findings support the integrated approach to the study of suicide and homicide. The m