Homicide: A Sourcebook of Social Research
- ISBN-10
- 0761907653
- ISBN-13
- 9780761907657
- Series
- Homicide
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 356
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- SAGE
- Authors
- Margaret A. Zahn, M. Dwayne Smith
Description
Carefully organized and edited, the 25 contributions to this sourcebook have been prepared by leading scholars, each in a particular research area, providing summaries of the current state of knowledge for the subject of their expertise.
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