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1. Why We Kill

   Understanding Violence Across Cultures and Disciplines

   Edited by Nancy Loucks, Sally Smith Holt, Joanna Adler

   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...

   Published November 30th 2009 by Willan
2. My Brother's Keeper

   By Jonathan Burnside, Joanna Adler, Nancy Loucks, Gerry Rose

   Ten years ago there were no faith-based units in prisons outside South America. Today, they are spreading all over the world, including the United States, Europe and the Commonwealth. My Brother's Keeper is the first major study of a global phenomenon. Exploring the roots of faith-based units in...

   Published September 30th 2005 by Willan