Transcription of Murder and society: why commit murder?
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Murder and society : why commitmurder?Peter Morrall looks at how the phenomenon of Murder varies inmotivation, cause, definition and consequences according to globalsituations and societal official global Murder rate per annum isrising toward one million (Morrall, 2006).But there is no universal, cross-culturalmeaning of Murder that can be adhered to in anycontext, no matter who are the victims and who thekillers. Murdering can be sanctioned by the State(the death penalty) or by groups with a particularinterest in using Murder (suicide-bombers) as atactic to achieve what are considered laudableaims not only by themselves but by other groupsor , societies adopt their own moralhierarchies of Murder depending on who are thevictims and who are the perpetrators. This meansthat even if all killing is legally proscribed, particulartypes of killing are given harsher punishments thanothers.
motivation, cause, definition and consequences according to global situations and societal values. T he official global murder rate per annum is rising toward one million (Morrall, 2006). But there is no universal, cross-cultural meaning of murder that can be adhered to in any context, no matter who are the victims and who the killers.
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