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Edited by Richard Sherlock - David M. Buss, The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill (New York: Penguin Press, 2005), 278 pages. ISBN: 1-59420-043-2. Paperback, $15.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Johan M. G. van der Dennen
Johan M. G. van der Dennen*
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Department of Legal Theory Section of Political Science Faculty of Law University of Groningen Oude Kijk in't Jatstraat 5 9712 EA Groningen The Netherlands [email protected]
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 1-2 , September 2005 , pp. 76 - 86
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