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The most serious type of violent crime is homicide, which is the killing of one human being by another. But not all homicides are equal. There’s a big difference, for example, between capital murder and assisted suicide. Here, I explain the labels that the law uses to characterize homicides, and I note the circumstances in which each label is applied.

Homicide tends to be a young man’s crime. Persons between the ages of 18 and 24 have been much more likely to commit homicide than any other age group, and men are about seven times more likely than women to commit homicide.