The Will to Kill: Making Sense of Senseless Murder - Softcover

This brief but comprehensive book explores power and control as a central and unifying thesis for understanding why people kill. Each chapter explores different sub-types of homicide and the circumstances in which people kill each other. The authors concentrate on the extraordinary and seemingly inexplicable cases with the belief that the lessons learned from examining senseless and outrageous murders can be extrapolated to more ordinary homicides as well.

Written by world renowned experts, this supplemental text employs the general notion of power and control as a central and unifying thesis for understanding why people kill. This brief yet comprehensive and student-friendly book presents a classification of homicide theories, examining "the will to kill" from various perspectives.