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H. Chan (2014)
Understanding Sexual Homicide Offenders: An Integrated Approach
Eric Beauregard, M. Delisi, Ashley Hewitt (2018)
Sexual Murderers: Sex Offender, Murderer, or Both?Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 30
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology Book Reviews 2020, Vol. 53(2) 303–308 ! The Author(s) 2020 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/0004865820907005 journals.sagepub.com/home/anj Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan, A global casebook of sexual homicide. Springer: Singapore, 2019; XVIIIþ 243 pp. ISBN 978-981-13-8859-0, e89.99 (hbk) Reviewed by: James Oleson, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Murder is widely regarded as the most serious of crimes. Other offences might be destructive, revolting, or horrific, but the finality of death places murder into a unique criminal category. For this reason, in Kennedy v. Louisiana, the United States Supreme Court struck down the death penalty for child rape, reasoning: The court concludes that there is a distinction between intentional first–degree murder, on the one hand, and non–homicide crimes against individuals, even including child rape, on the other. The latter crimes may be devastating in their harm, as here, but in terms of moral depravity and of the injury to the person and to the public, they cannot compare to murder in their severity and irrevocability. (554 US 407, at 437) And if murder is the most grave and final of crimes, then sexual murder likely represents the most shocking and unsettling of these.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE
Published: Jun 1, 2020
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