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• Title: Killing for Profit
• Author : Mary Lorenz Dietz
• Release Date : January 01, 1983
• Genre: True Crime,Books,Nonfiction,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 3965 KB

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This book is about killing. It is about the kind of cold-blooded, impersonal, predatory murder that people fear most. We call this type of killing felony homicide.1

Felony homicide occurs during robberies and rapes. It includes contract killings arranged to get rid of business rivals or to collect insurance money. It also includes torture killing criminals inflict upon each other. We fear felony homicide most because it is an act over which we have no control and against which we have no defense. The victims are found in stores and houses, in streets and alleys, and in parking lots. The police usually have no leads such as quarrel or enmity, no relationships to investigate, no clues. The killers and victims are strangers or casual acquaintances.

The purpose of this book is to examine felony homicide, the particular type of murder that can be conceived as the ultimate form of violence. It may be distinguished from other murders in a number of ways: (1) the killers in felony homicides are usually career criminals; (2) the context leading to the murder and often the murder itself involves planning and premeditation; (3) there tend to be more people involved, multiple victims and particularly multiple offenders; (4) the victims are often forcibly/physically restrained; (5) there is seldom a preceding argument.

Crime has increased throughout the world in recent years (Radzinowicz and King, 1977). Violence has been particularly high in developing countries (Clinard and Abbott, 1973), but nowhere has the concern for violence been as great as in the United States, with its steadily rising homicide rate. Not only have the number of murders increased, but the nature of the killings has changed as well.

TABLE 1.1

U.S. HOMICIDE RATES PER 100,000 POPULATION BY FIVE-YEAR TIME PERIODS 1935—1975

Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reports as shown by Cohn (1976:48)

The rate of homicide for U.S. metropolitan areas increased per 100,000 population from 9.3 in 1965 to 21.3 in 1975 (Block, 1977). For some cities these rates were even higher. The Chicago rate was 25.0 in 1975 (Block, 1977); Detroit was higher yet with a rate of 46.0 per 100,000 by 1972 (Wilt, 1974).

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