Introduction This paper’s topic is murder. Murder is defined as the willful (non-negligent) killing of one human being by another. This does not include negligent deaths, attempts to kill, assaults to kill, suicide, accidental deaths, and justifiable homicide. Crime is broken into two parts: Part I and Part II crimes. Murder is one of the eight Part I crimes, these crimes are the most serious offenses included in the Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics (UCR). The other seven offenses are: rape, assault