Homicide as conflict resolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2152003 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ken Levi (The University of Texas at San Antonio, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 281-307 |
| Publication date | 1980-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Deviant Behavior (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-9625 • E-ISSN: 1521-0456 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01639625.1980.9967530 |
| OpenAlex | W1973224751 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 21 |
Homicide research at societal, subcultural, and interaction levels of analysis has not produced a comprehensive model for the killer‐victim transaction. But rules for organizing the experience of homicide can be generated from Simmel's definition of conflict as a "resolution of divergent dualisms" (1955:11). A model of homicide as a form of conflict resolution is demonstrated through interviews with a random sample of 35 adjudicated killers. Respondents' definitions of homicide correspond to the conflict resolution model, with their verbal accounts, their socio‐psychological orientation to the victim at the point of the killing, their method of killing, and the general dynamics of the killer‐victim transaction, all varying as a resolution of a distinctive relationship, either between lovers, adversaries, or strangers. The situational definition casts homicide within the realm of normal behavior and at the same time delineates its distinctive features
Conflict resolution · Conflict resolution strategy · Criminology · Homicide · Poison control · Political science · Realm · Resolution (logic · Situational ethics · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses · Artificial Intelligence
Patterns in forcible rape.
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Conflict
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
Theory of collective behavior.
Deviance and Identity
The Subculture of Violence
Patterns in Criminal Homicide
Aggression
Existential Sociology
The social meanings of suicide
Homicide in an Urban Community
Criminal Homicide as a Situated Transaction
The Self and the Violent Criminal Act
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2024 (43) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |