Homicide

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This paper begins with a brief two hundred year history of homicide. It continues to discuss the sociology of victims and perpetrators exploring race, age and gender. It also expands on various motivations for murder and monitors, through stated statistics, patterns of considered motivations through history. In conclusion, grief and methods for coping with grief are discussed.

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"Total homicide rates fluctuated during the 1981-1998 period, however, intimate partner homicide rates decreased steadily during this time frame, and among certain sub-populations, the decrease has been substantial (Paulozzi pp).
These decreases are temporally associated with the introduction of social programs and legal measures to curb intimate partner violence, but a causal relationship has not been established (Paulozzi pp). Moreover, no confirmed explanation exists for the greater decrease in rates among males compared with rates among females (Paulozzi pp). The differences in intimate partner homicide rates by race indicate that economic, social, and cultural factors are involved (Paulozzi pp). It was also found that community population size and state demonstrates that regional sociocultural differences might be involved, while access to firearms might be a key factor in both male and female intimate partner homicides (Paulozzi pp)."

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