| Homicide | | Murder | | Assassination Child murder Consensual homicide Contract killing Felony murder Honor killing Human sacrifice Lust murder Lynching Mass murder Murder-suicide Negligent homicide Proxy murder Ritual murder Serial killer Spree killer Torture murder Vehicular homicide Homicide (Latin homicidium, homo human being + caedere to cut, kill) refers to the act of killing another human being. ...
Assassin and Assassins redirect here. ...
Note: for practices of systematically killing very young children, see infanticide. ...
Consensual homicide refers to a killing in which the victim wants to die. ...
In most countries with judicial systems, a contract to kill a person is unenforceable by law (in the sense that the customer cannot sue for specific performance and the contract killer cannot sue for his pay). ...
The felony murder rule is a legal doctrine according to which anyone who commits, or is found to be involved in, a serious crime (a felony), during which any person dies, is guilty of murder. ...
An honor killing is the murder of a person, almost invariably a woman, who has been perceived as having brought dishonor to their family. ...
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Lynching is a form of violence, usually execution, conceived of by its perpetrators as extrajudicial punishment for offenders or as a terrorist method of enforcing social domination. ...
Mass murder (massacre) is the act of murdering a large number of people, typically at the same time, or over a relatively short period of time. ...
A murder suicide is an act in which an individual kills one or more other persons immediately before, or while killing himself. ...
Negligent homicide is a charge brought against persons, who by inaction, allow others under their care to die. ...
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Ritual murder is murder performed in a ritualistic fashion or on a basis of rituals. ...
Serial killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of victims who were usually unknown to them beforehand. ...
A spree killer, also known as a rampage killer, is someone who embarks on a murderous assault on his victims in a short time in multiple locations. ...
Torture murder is a loosely defined legal term to describe the process used by murderers who kill their victims by slowly torturing them. ...
In most states in the United States, vehicular homicide is a crime. ...
| | Manslaughter | | In English law For a discussion of the law in other countries, see manslaughter In the English law of homicide, manslaughter is a less serious offence than murder with the the law differentiating between levels of fault based on the mens rea (Latin for a guilty mind). Manslaughter may be either: Voluntary where...
| | Non-criminal homicide | | Justifiable homicide Capital punishment The concept of justifiable homicide in criminal law stands on the dividing line between an excuse and an exculpation. ...
Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal by the state as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offences. ...
| | Other types of homicide | | Democide Familicide Femicide Feticide Filicide Fratricide Gendercide Genocide Infanticide Mariticide Matricide Parricide Patricide Prolicide Sororicide Suicide Regicide Tyrannicide Uxoricide Vivicide Democide is a term coined by political scientist R. J. Rummel for the murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder. Rummel created the term as an extended concept to include forms of government murder that are not covered by the legal definition...
A familicide is a type of murder or murder-suicide in which at least one spouse and one or more children are killed. ...
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Abortion, in its most common usage, refers to the voluntary or induced termination of pregnancy, generally through the use of surgical procedures or drugs. ...
Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing his or her own son or daughter. ...
Fratricide (from the Latin word frater, meaning: brother and cide meaning to kill) is the act of a person killing his or her brother. ...
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Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic or national group. ...
In sociology and biology, infanticide is the practice of intentionally causing the death of an infant of a given species, by members of the same species - often by the mother. ...
Mariticide (not to be confused with matricide); from the Latin maritus (married) & cidium (killing), literally means the murder of ones married partner, but has become most associated with the murder of a husband by his wife. ...
Matricide is the act of killing ones mother. ...
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Patricide is (i) the act of killing ones father, or (ii) a person who kills his or her father. ...
Prolicide is the act of killing offspring, either before or soon after birth. ...
This article is about a kind of homicide. ...
For other uses, see Suicide (disambiguation). ...
For other uses, see Regicide (disambiguation). ...
Tyrannicide literally means the killing of a tyrant. ...
Uxoricide (from Latin uxor meaning wife) is murder of ones wife. ...
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| | | A lust murder is a homicide in which the offender searches for erotic satisfaction by taking away the victim's life. Commonly this type of crime is manifested either by murder during sexual intercourse or by mutilating the sexual organs or areas of the victim's body. The mutilation of the victim may include evisceration and/or displacement of the genitalia. It also includes such activities as posing and propping of the body in different positions, generally sexual ones; insertion of objects into bodily orifices; anthropophagy (the consumption of human blood and/or flesh) and necrophilia (the performing of sex acts on a human corpse). Homicide (Latin homicidium, homo human being + caedere to cut, kill) refers to the act of killing another human being. ...
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Mutilation or maiming is an act or physical injury that degrades the appearance or function of the (human) body, usually causing death. ...
A sex organ, or primary sexual characteristic, narrowly defined, is any of those parts of the body (which are not always bodily organs according to the strict definition) which are involved in sexual reproduction and constitute the reproductive system in an complex organism; namely: Male: penis (notably the glans penis...
Disembowelment is evisceration, or the removing of some or all of vital organs, usually from the abdomen. ...
Cannibalism is the act or practice of eating members of the same species, e. ...
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A lust murder begins with the obsessions of the offender. Generally, they have a sexual obsession with their victims, and organized lust murderers may stalk their victims for weeks or months before the actual killing. The signature component of the crime, that which names it a lust murder, is the killer acting out their fantasies with their victims and the bodies of those victims. Lust murder is a common feature in the criminal careers of serial killers. Stalking (from Middle English stalk: from Old English bestealcian; akin to Old English stelan to steal) is a legal term for repeated harassment or other forms of invasion of a persons privacy in a manner that causes fear to its target. ...
Serial killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of victims who were usually unknown to them beforehand. ...
The term is also used in a related but slightly different sense, to refer to an individual who gains sexual arousal from the act of committing murder, or has persistent sexual fantasies of committing murder, even if the murder itself does not involve the genital mutilation or other characteristics cited above. As such, it is a type of paraphilia. Look up paraphilia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
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