Contract killing
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Contract killing, sometimes known as murder-for-hire, is a form of murder or assassination in which one party employs another party to extrajudicially kill a targeted person or people[1] via an illegal agreement that involves some form of compensation, monetary or otherwise.[2] An act of contract killing is also known colloquially as a hit, and the person performing the killing (i.e. the contract killer or "contractor") is known as the hitman[3] or (as borrowed from Spanish) "sicario".
Statistics
Contract killings generally make up a small percentage of murders. For example, they accounted for about 6% of all murders in Scotland from 1993 to 2002.[4]
A study by the Australian Institute of Criminology of 162 contract murders and attempted contract murders in Australia between 1989 and 2002 indicated that the most common reason for murder-for-hire was insurance policy payouts. The study also found that payments varied from $5,000 to $30,000 per killing, with an average of $15,000, and that the most commonly used weapons were firearms. Contract killings accounted for 2% of murders in Australia during that period.[5]
Contract killers may share similarities with serial killers, such as detached financial and emotional incentives, but are not classified as such due to the differing objectives of their crimes.[6]Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[7] Nevertheless, there are occasionally individuals that are labelled as both contract killers and serial killers.[7][8][9]
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