2006-08-24 21:39:42 · 19 answers · asked by gil 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Murder is committed with treachery and evident premeditation while homicide is committed without planning and sometimes without an intention to kill.
2006-08-24 21:45:13 · answer #1 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Difference Between Homicide And Murder
2016-10-15 06:06:59 · answer #2 · answered by koth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The words murder and homicide are often used interchangeably throughout the media and on television. A considerable difference in meaning, however, does exist between them. Homicide is any event when a human being dies because of another’s actions. Numerous variations and degrees of homicide exist, including those that are justifiable and criminally negligent. Murder is a type of homicide that involves both malicious intent and prior thought.
The act of killing a person, whether deliberately or unintentionally, is known as homicide"
2014-02-06 10:01:00 · answer #3 · answered by Janna 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Homicide is the killing of another person. Broad general term.
Murder is a form of homicide committed with the mental state of malice. In most states, that means either the specific intent to kill or cause serious bodily harm, or it can be with gross recklessness, also called depraved indifference to human life.
Felony murder is a form of homicide where the death occurred during the commission of a dangerous felony (aggravated battery, rape, kidnapping, arson, etc.) While the killer may not have had any specific or even general intent to harm anyone, the fact that they had the intent to commit the dangerous felony is itself sufficient to satisfy the malice requirement for murder.
2006-08-25 04:25:21 · answer #4 · answered by coragryph 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Homicide is a legal term for slaying or killing.
Murder is malicious, premeditated homicide. Some states define certain homicides as murder if the killing occurs in the course of armed robbery, rape, etc.
John
Criminal Justice Student
2006-08-24 21:46:08 · answer #5 · answered by A+ Certified Professional 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Murder is a legal term that has a specific meaning in the context of the law. There is also manslaughter, wrongful death, etc. Homicide is just an ordinary word for a killing. It has no legal definition. There is no charge of "homicide".
2006-08-24 21:44:18 · answer #6 · answered by vinny_the_hack 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Homicide is a more specific term.
Where murder means taking a life, premeditated or not, homicide means the killing of a single human by another human. So fundimentally, murder can be any number of deaths, and can include animals or vegetation, depending on your perspective, where homicide is only for the killing of one human. Homicide is one of many terms used to differentiate between types of murder. Fratricide (killing a brother) matricide (killing a mother) and genocide(killing many people) are others.
2006-08-24 21:45:50 · answer #7 · answered by saturn_adrift 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Same meaning to me,if you take another human beings life away,you should forefeit your own life in return if it is found "beyond a reasonable doubt" that you took that human life away(or a maximum sentence of 100 years,no remission) so i do not personally think there is any distinction between murder and homicide.
2006-08-24 23:22:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
I think it is considered a homicide until such time it is determined to be a crime, if it is deemed a crime then it would be considered a murder.
2006-08-24 21:45:07 · answer #9 · answered by Jan G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John (above) just described what "first-degree" murder is considered, when it is premeditated, intentional, and/or malicious.
Other degrees, such as second or third degree, indicate that it was not premeditated but still intentional.
Manslaughter, like another individual said, is when it's unintentional and not premeditated.
2006-08-24 21:49:28 · answer #10 · answered by SirCharles 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋