Review Essay Homicide

and “Dealing with Homicide.” In Part 1, Bookman states that there is a lack of research on homicide in the United Kingdom and she seeks to fill this void with this text. A search of the literature on research on homicide in the United Kingdom found few recent articles and texts (see Gresswell & Hollin, 1994; Innes, 1999; Miethe & Meier, 1990). Bookman looks at homicide from a social and legal perspective and stresses the rareness of its occurrence in the United Kingdom. She begins chapter 1 by defining homicide as killing that is either lawful or unlawful (p. 6). She argues that in examining definitions of homicide, one must look at culpability and responsibility (p. 4). Thus, one must separate the act from intent. Bookman spends some considerable time developing the argument that more attention needs to be paid to deaths that are caused in the act of driving. She outlines three categories of these types of deaths: “dangerous driving, ” “careless driving when under the influence of drink or drugs, ” and “aggravated vehicles-taking, ” which is commonly referred to as car-jacking in North America (p. 10). Driving-related deaths require more attention, she argues, as they carry multiple elements of seriousness, the first being bad driving and the secon