Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. An approach to the study of homicide -- 3. Scenarios of masculine violence in the context of sexual intimacy -- 4. Confrontational homicide -- 5. Taking exceptional risks: homicide in the course of other crime -- 6. Homicide as a form of conflict resolution -- 7. Rounding out the picture of homicide -- 8. Problems in the study of victim-offender relationships -- 9. Towards a theoretical analysis of homicide -- References -- Index