03032nam a2200385 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020003900112020003600151020002700187040002100214035002100235050002400256100002500280245009000305260006000395300001600455490003000471504005100501505027200552520135600824533015202180650001202332650001402344650002502358650004102383655002902424710001702453830003102470856012602501999001902627ebr10495597CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||090116s2009    vau     sb    001 0 eng d  z  2009001837  z9780813928265 (cloth : alk. paper)  z0813928265 (cloth : alk. paper)  z9780813928357 (e-book)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)75563354414aHV6515b.C65 2009eb1 aCooney, Mark,d1955-10aIs killing wrong?h[electronic resource] :ba study in pure sociology /cMark Cooney.  aCharlottesville :bUniversity of Virginia Press,c2009.  axii, 254 p.1 aStudies in pure sociology  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aPreface -- 1:  Morality of homicide -- 2:  Pure sociology -- 3:  Vertical dimension -- 4:  Organizational dimension -- 5:  Radial dimension -- 6:  Normative dimension -- 7:  Cultural dimension -- 8:  Relational dimension -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.  aFrom the Publisher: "Thou shalt not kill" is arguably the most basic moral and legal principle in any society. Yet while some killers are pilloried and punished, others are absolved and acquitted, and still others are lauded and lionized. Why? The traditional answer is that how killers are treated depends on the nature of their killing, whether it was aggressive or defensive, intentional or accidental. But those factors cannot explain the enormous variation in legal officials' and citizens' responses to real-life homicides. Cooney argues that a radically new style of thought-pure sociology-can. Conceived by the sociologist Donald Black, pure sociology makes no reference to psychology, to any single person's intent, or even to individuals as such. Instead, pure sociology explains behavior in terms of its social geometry-its location and direction in a multidimensional social space. Is Killing Wrong? provides the most comprehensive assessment of pure sociology yet attempted. Drawing on data from well over one hundred societies, including the modern day United States, it represents the most thorough account yet of case-level social control, or the response to conduct defined as wrong. In doing so, it demonstrates that the law and morality of homicide are neither universal nor relative but geometrical, as predicted by Black's theory.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2013.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aMurder. 0aHomicide. 0aCriminal psychology. 0aCriminal justice, Administration of. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc. 0aStudies in pure sociology.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10495597zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c241230d241230