Why We Kill: Understanding Violence Across Cultures and Disciplines

218 Pages·2009·2.58 MB·English

by  Nancy Loucks

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why
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why
we
kill
understandingviolenceacross
culturesanddisciplines
edited by
Nancy Loucks, Sally Smith Holt
and Joanna R Adler
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ACKNOWLEDEGMENTS
This book has come together during the course of an
extraordinary number of personal and professional
challenges for all of us.We would therefore like to thank
bothourfamiliesandespeciallyourparticipatingauthorsfor
their tremendous patience,their perseverance,and for their
faith in the project.We hope our efforts were worthwhile.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Dr Joanna R. Adler is a Principal Lecturer in Forensic Psychology at Middlesex
University.SheisthePostgraduateProgrammeLeaderforMScForensicPsychology
andrunsForensicPsychologicalServices.Shehasconductedresearchandpublished
in areas including fear,power,and victimisation in prisons;effects of fear of crime
on psychological well-being;intra-familial violence;police stress;the punishment
ofyoungoffenders;radicalisationof‘atriskyouth’,post-genocidesurvivalandhate
crimes.RecentpublicationsincludeForensicPsychology:Concepts,debatesandpractice,
2nd Edition co edited with Jackie Gray and in press withWillan and an entry on
genocideintheforthcomingCambridgeHandbookofForensicPsychology(eds.Jennifer
BrownandElizabethCampbell)withAgnieszkaGolecDe-Zavala.
DrRohanGunaratna is Head of the International Centre for PoliticalViolence
andTerrorism Research,Singapore and Senior Fellow at the Fletcher School of
Law andDiplomacy’s JebsenCentreforCounter-TerrorismStudies,Boston.He
also holds several honorary appointments including as Senior Fellow,National
Memorial Institute for the Prevention ofTerrorism,Oklahoma;Member of the
AdvisoryCouncil,InstituteforCounterTerrorism,Israel;andMember,Steering
Committee,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity’sHomelandSecurityPolicyInstitute.
DrGunaratnaholdsaMastersinInternationalPeaceStudiesfromtheUniversity
of Notre Dame, US and a doctorate in International Relations from the
University of StAndrews.
Dr Gunaratna is the author of 12 books including Inside Al Qaeda: Global
NetworkofTerror,aninternationalbestsellerpublishedbyColumbiaUniversityPress.
HealsoservesontheeditorialboardsofStudiesinConflictandTerrorismandTerrorism
andPoliticalViolence,theleadingcounter-terrorismacademicjournals.Gunaratnahas
over25yearsofacademic,policy,andoperationalexperienceincounterterrorism.
HeledthespecialistteamthatdesignedandbuilttheUNdatabaseonthemobility,
weaponsandfinanceofAlQaeda,TalibanandtheirEntities.Invitedtotestifybefore
the9/11Commission,hedebriefeddetaineesinAsiaandtheMiddleEastincluding
high value detainees in Iraq.A litigation consultant to the United States Justice
Department,heservedastheUSexpertintheJosePadillatrial.
ProfLawrenceM.HinmanisProfessorofPhilosophyandDirectoroftheValues
Institute at the University of San Diego,where he also directs the‘Ethics across
the Curriculum’ program. He is the author of numerous scholarly as well as
popular articles and two books in ethics,Ethics:A PluralisticApproach to Moral
Theory,3rded.(Wadsworth,2002)andContemporaryMoralIssues,3rded.(Prentice-
Hall,2003).His website,Ethics Updates (http://ethics.acusd.edu) receives over
8,000 visitors a day and has gained numerous awards.
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ProfPeterHodgkinson,BA(Hons),CertQualSW,OBEisFounderandDirector
of the Centre for Capital Punishment Studies (CCPS),Westminster University
Law School,London.Prior to joiningWestminster in 1989 he was a Probation
OfficerwiththeInnerLondonProbationandForensicSocialWorkAdvisoratthe
Denis Hill Secure Unit. He was Honorary Secretary, British Society of
Criminology(1978–83);NewsletterEditor,DivisionofCriminologicalandLegal
Psychology,BritishPsychologicalSociety(1980–84);CropwoodFellow,Institute
of Criminology,University of Cambridge (1983);Member of the Policy Co-
ordinatingGroupandCounciloftheHowardLeagueforPenalReform(1982–
99); Editorial Board - Journal of Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health
(1989–93);Written Evidence to the House of Commons,HomeAffairs Select
CommitteeonTheYearandadayRule&theMandatoryLifeSentence(Howard
League 1983); Member of the Steering Committee to the Death Penalty in
CommonwealthAfricaProject,BritishInstituteofInternationalandComparative
Law(2004–06).Since1996hehasbeenExpertandAdviseroncapitalpunishment
to the Council of Europe and since 1997 a founding member of the Foreign
Secretary’s Death Penalty Panel,working closely with governments and NGOs
internationally.He is also an advisor to the Council of Europe on prison issues.
In 2004 he was appointed OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for his work
promoting human rights.
Professor Hodgkinson has written and published extensively on capital
punishment scholarship and its applied relationship to penal policy and practice
including Capital Punishment: Global issues and prospects. Hodgkinson &
Rutherford, eds., Waterside Press 1996: Capital Punishment in the USA,
Hodgkinson et al., UK Parliamentary Human Rights Group, 1996 and with
Schabaseds.,CapitalPunishment:strategiesforabolition,CambridgeUniversityPress,
2003.
SeemaKandelia LLB (Hons),LL.M joined the Centre for Capital Punishment
Studies in 2003 as a postgraduate researcher.Her main areas of focus included
research into the issues surrounding victims and the death penalty, public
reassurance and alternatives to capital punishment.She also monitored capital
punishment developments in the USA, the Philippines, the Middle East and
Africa,andworkedonissuessuchasjuveniles,mentalretardationandinnocence.
Seema now works as a Lecturer and Research Fellow for the Law School at the
University ofWestminster.
Dr Maria Kaspersson is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the School of
HumanitiesandSocialSciences,UniversityofGreenwich.Shegraduatedwitha
PhDinCriminologyfromStockholmUniversitywithathesisonhomicideand
infanticide in Stockholm. Her current research has involved honour-related
violence,the Swedish Prostitution Law and changes in homicide from the 16th
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to the 20th century. Publications include ‘The Great Murder Mystery’ in
ComparativeHistoriesofCrime(Dunstall,Emsley&Godfrey,eds.,WillanPublishing,
2003) and ‘Homicide and Infanticide in Stockholm 1920–1939’ in Journal of
Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention,2003.
Dr Nancy Loucks is Chief Executive of Families Outside,a national charity in
Scotland that works on behalf of prisoners’families.During the writing of this
book she worked as an independent criminologist,specialising in prison policy
and comparative penology. Her work has included extensive research in
criminology including the imprisonment of women,aspects of prison discipline
and control,violence and bullying,use of drugs and alcohol,suicides and self-
injury,andtheimpactofimprisonmentonprisoners’families.Otherprojectshave
included research into the employment of people with a criminal record in the
European Union,human rights aspects of religious communities in prisons,and
risk assessment of serious sexual and violent offenders.
Kay Nooney is a forensic psychologist in HM Prison Service for England and
Wales. Her earlier areas of work have included research management and
operational research in Prison Service Headquarters. Her work in a London
prisonspecialisedininterventionswithHIVprisoners,sexoffendersandprisoners
in crisis.The work in prison was followed by development and evaluation of
offending behaviour programmes in prison and the community.She is currently
part of the Safer Custody Group in the Prison Service Headquarters,which is
concerned with deaths,self-harm and violence in prison custody.
Rupa Reddy LLB (Hons),LL.M was formerly postgraduate researcher at the
CentreforCapitalPunishmentStudies(2002–06)responsibleforresearchonuse
ofthedeathpenaltywithintheBritishCommonwealthCaribbeanandtheIndian
subcontinent;as well as research on the issues of gender,race,religion,mental
illness and the role of psychiatrists in relation to capital punishment.Rupa also
editedthefirsttwovolumesoftheCentre’sOccasionalPaperSeriesjournal.She
is currently undertaking PhD research at the School of Oriental and African
Studies on honour-related violence within UK ethnic minority communities.
DrStephenSmithistheco-founderofBritain’sfirstHolocaustMemorial,Beth
Shalom,and of theAegis Genocide Prevention Initiative.He writes and lectures
frequently on Holocaust and Genocide studies, and his particular area of
specialisation is memorialisation and witness testimony.His awards include an
MBEin2000andtheInterfaithGoldMedallionthesameyear.DrSmitheditsa
continuingseriesofsurvivortestimonies(publishedbyQuillPress,2000–01)and
is writer/director of the film documentaries Wasted Lives (2000), Survivors:
Memories for the Past,Lessons for the Future (2001),and Britain and the Holocaust