The Common Language of Homicide and Suicide: Evidence of the Value of Durkheim's Typologies

The Common Language of Homicide and Suicide: Evidence of the Value of Durkheim's Typologies
J. Michael Bozeman
May 2014

ISBN-13:  978-1-59332-727-9 / Hardcover
Dimensions:  5.5 x 8.5 / viii, 310 pages

Price   $80.00

Description

Bozeman’s work appeals to sociologists, criminologists, psychiatrists and forensic linguists. His thesis is three-fold: to explore emergent themes in suicides and murder confessions, to determine whether Durkheim’s suicide typologies might also be applicable to homicide (heretofore untested), and to expand upon the “forces of production” and “forces of direction” in the stream analogy of overall violence to include the coincident rise of both forces in what the author refers to as the stream-flood analogy. Findings support the integrated approach to the study of suicide and homicide. The most exciting revelation in the book is that evidence of the value of Durkheim’s suicide typologies were, in fact, present in the language of homicide offenders.

About the Author

J. Michael Bozeman retired from the Houston Police Department Homicide Division in 2010 following a 33-year law enforcement career. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State University in December 2011. His academic service includes Colorado Mesa University, The University of Texas at Tyler and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University– Prescott.