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Martin Daly - Killing the Competition: Economic Inequality and Homicide - 9781412863254 - V9781412863254
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Killing the Competition: Economic Inequality and Homicide

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Description for Killing the Competition: Economic Inequality and Homicide Hardback. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: JFFA; JFFE; JKVC; KCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.

Criminologists have known for decades that income inequality is the best predictor of the local homicide rate, but why this is so has eluded them. There is a simple, compelling answer: most homicides are the denouements of competitive interactions between men. Relatively speaking, where desired goods are distributed inequitably and competition for those goods is severe, dangerous tactics of competition are appealing and a high homicide rate is just one of many unfortunate consequences. Killing the Competition is about this relationship between economic inequality and lethal interpersonal violence.

Suggesting that economic inequality is a cause of social problems and violence elicits ... Read more

Killing the Competition applies basic principles of behavioural biology to explain why killers are usually men, not women, and counters the view that attitudes and values prevailing in "cultures of violence" make change impossible.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781412863254
SKU
V9781412863254
Shipping Time
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99-1

About Martin Daly
Martin Daly is professor emeritus of psychology, neuroscience and behavior at McMaster University, Canada. He has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Human Behavior & Evolution Society.

Reviews for Killing the Competition: Economic Inequality and Homicide
"[A] thought-provoking and important book. It provides just the kind of careful and lively treatment one would expect from Daly, an accomplished evolutionary psychologist and a pioneer of applying Darwin's insights to criminal behaviour... I liked this book more than I wanted to, not least because Daly can really write, conveying complex ideas in easy-to-understand and evocative prose. He meticulously ... Read more

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