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Politics : Long Live The Death Penalty! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (424)	1/16/2003 9:26:58 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 828

Great question! To the question of motive, here is one pie chart. I suppose we could find a lot of breakdowns on identified motive, but it probably doesn't answer the inner gist of your question. Outward motives include self protection from someone who "knows something" damaging, "retribution and revenge (see "death penalty"), as part of a crime, as part of an ideology, as a psychotic attempt at power and meaning, and so forth. But most murders involve people who know each other well enough to have strong emotions vis-a-vis one another--most often family. Murder of strangers is very rare, apparently. Perhaps we have someone who works in criminology or sociology who can assist us here... druglibrary.org