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Homicide - Foundations of Human Behavior (Hardcover)
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Homicide - Foundations of Human Behavior (Hardcover)
Series: Foundations of Human Behavior
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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.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Foundations of Human Behavior |
Release date: |
October 2017 |
First published: |
1988 |
Authors: |
Martin Daly
• Margo Wilson
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
342 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-138-52520-7 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-138-52520-0 |
Barcode: |
9781138525207 |
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