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Homicide |
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| Homicide |
| Murder |
| Assassination · Child murder Consensual homicide Contract killing · Honour killing Lust murder · Lynching Mass murder · Murder-suicide Proxy murder · Ritual murder Serial killer · Spree killer Torture murder · Feticide |
| Manslaughter |
| in English law Negligent homicide Vehicular homicide |
| Non-criminal homicide |
| Note: Varies by jurisdiction |
| Justifiable homicide Capital punishment Human sacrifice Feticide |
| By victim or victims |
| Suicide |
| Family Familicide · Avunculicide Fratricide / Sororicide Mariticide / Uxoricide |
| Other Genocide / Democide Regicide / Tyrannicide |
Homicide (Latin homicidium, homo human being + caedere to cut, kill) refers to the act of killing another human being.1 It can also describe a person who has committed such an act, though this use is rare in modern English. Homicide is not always an illegal act.
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Criminal homicide is a malum in se crime, and every legal system contains some form of prohibition or regulation of criminal homicide.
Homicidal crimes in some criminal jurisdictions include:
Many forms of homicide have their own term based on the person being killed.
Homicides do not always involve a crime. Sometimes the law allows homicide by allowing certain defenses to criminal charges. One of the most recognized is self defense, which provides that a person is entitled to commit homicide to protect his or her own life from a deadly attack.
Some defenses include:
Homicides may also be non-criminal when conducted with the sanction of the state. The most obvious example is capital punishment, in which the state determines that a person should die. Homicides committed during war are usually not subject to criminal prosecution either.
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