Homicide: Foundations of Human Behavior

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Homicide and Human Nature
....A brief introduction to \"selection thinking\"
....Evolutionary psychology
....Self-interest and conflict
....Why homicide?
....What\'s a homicide?
2. Killing Kinfolks
....Who kills whom? Some American data
....Do relatives pose a lesser risk?
....Collaborative killing in 13th-century England
....Some other studies with higher proportions of blood kin 26 
....Fraternal strife
....Kinship and collaborative homicide revisited
3. Killing Children: I. Infanticide in the Ethnographic Record
....Desperate decisions
....Women\'s life histories
....Discriminative parental solicitude
....A cross-cultural review
....Female-selective infanticide
....Other interests
4. Killing Children: II. Parental Homicide in the Modern West
....Infanticide and maternal age
....Infanticide and maternal marital status
....A brief history of infanticide in England
....On maternal \"bonding\"
....When a defective child is born
....The child\'s changing risk of homicide at parental hands 73 
....Mothers who kill older children
....Fathers who kill
....Substitute parents
....Risks to children living with stepparents
....Stepparents and offspring age
5. Parricide: Killing Parents
....The logic of parent-offspring conflict
....Killing parents
....An asymmetry of valuation
....Factors associated with the risk of parricide
....Oedipal conflict and the primal parricide
....Oedipus overextended
....Conflict over what?
....Father-daughter conflict
....Toppling the patriarch
....Intrasexual rivalry or parent-offspring conflict?
6. Altercations and Honor
....Friday, September 5, 1980
....Trivial altercations
....Status, reputation, and the capacity for violence
....A question of variance
....What do men want?
7. Why Men and Not Women?
....Sexual selection and \"parental investment\"
....Polygyny is a matter of degree
....Sexual success versus survival?
....The sexual selective history of Homo sapiens
....Intrasexual competition and violence
....Margaret Mead and New Guinea
....Biophobia
....On the causes of sex differences
8. The Logic of Same-Sex Conflict
....The demography of homicide
....The problem of \"motive\"
....Insult and redress
....Robbery homicides
....Sexual rivalry
....Sexual rivalry homicides
9. 	Till Death Us Do Part
....Wives as commodities?
....Adultery law
....Provocation and the \"reasonable man\"
....Spousal homicide and sexual jealousy in North America 296 
....The killer\'s view of the matter
....Conjugal jealousy and violence around the world
....Violence as coercive control
....From May to December
....Partners in procreation
....Familicide, suicide, and spite
10. Retaliation and Revenge
....Blood revenge in foraging societies
....On the cross-cultural ubiquity of blood revenge
....Fraternal interest groups
....On the utility of the revenge motive
....An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
....An honorable resolution
....Vengeance lost
....The decline of kin right in English law
....Impersonal justice
11. Calling the Killers to Account
....Blameworthiness in evolutionary perspective
....On malice and magic
....The insanity defense
....Who gets acquitted by reason of insanity
....Diminished responsibility
....A penalty to fit the crime?
12. On Cultural Variation
....On the annual homicide rates of nations
....On culture and imitative violence
....What sorts of homicides are most variable in their frequency?
....\"Subcultures\" of violence
....On the legitimacy of killing
....Violent times?
Summary and Concluding Comments
References
Index