![]() | Why We Kill : Understanding Violence Across Cultures and Disciplines (1) Infanticide, serial killings, war, terrorism, abortion, honour killings, euthanasia, suicide bombings and genocide; all involve taking of life. Put most simply, all involve killing one or more other people. Yet cultural context influences heavily how one perceives all of these, and indeed, some readers of this paragraph may already have thought: 'But surely that doesn't belong with those others, that's not really killing.' Nancy Loucks is Chief Executive of Families Outside, a charity dedicated to providing support to the families of people involved in the criminal justice system. Sally Smith Holt is Associate Professor of Religion at William Jewel College, US. Joanna Adler is Director of Forensic Psychology Studies at Middlesex University. |
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