pics including, for example: Homicide and Human Nature (Ch. 1), Parricide: Killing Parents (Ch. 5), Why Men and Not Women? (Ch. 7), Till Death Do Us Part (Ch. 9), and On Cultural Variation (Ch. 12).
In order to accurately sift the data they gathered, Daly and Wilson found it necessary to posit their own definition of homicide. Among the reasons given is the fact that many countries statistically lump together murders, attempted murders, and manslaughters because each includes an element of assault "with intent to kill" (p. 13). But Daly and Wilson sought to exclude the attempts on the basis that "'attempted' murders may be systematically different from those successfully consummated" (p. 14). Therefore, the authors distinguish homicides as: "those interpers
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