. >> david mcconell is the author of "american honor killings." he sat down with the c-span cities tour in key west to talk about his book. isid: the title

. >> david mcconell is the author of "american honor killings." he sat down with the c-span cities tour in key west to talk about his book. is provocative, i guess. i wanted to describe killing, accounts of several murders and cases where game and have been killed by straight men or people who think they are straight or ostensibly straight or identifying as straight at the time. the reason i called it honor killings is because i want to focus on the criminals in this and i wanted to examine the psychology that goes behind all of this. after looking at it very carefully, i decided that was what was at play, the sense of honor young men feel and that was -- it was more the cause of this violence coming from within these guys much more than it was about the victim. number ofly large these cases, much larger than i realized at first. i chose cases from different environments all over the country, different geographical baltimore,fornia, there was one in michigan. south,explored down alabama, oklahoma, obviously. let's take a look at this problem withi