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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"homicides"”.
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Diagnosing the Increase in Homicides in Montevideo
… doubled and there is nothing yet to suggest that homicides might start to reverse to their pre 2012 numbers any time soon. Though this has naturally elicited much talk and media coverage, so far no one in Uruguay has conducted an in-depth study of the phenomenon. Therefore, there is a notorious …
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L’enquête policière d’homicide. Examen des facteurs d’élucidation des homicides en Algérie
… empiriquement les facteurs d’élucidation des homicides se réfèrent à deux écoles de pensée aux points de vue divergents. L’approche discrétionnaire, qui suggère que l’élucidation est affectée par l’appréciation, positive ou négative, de la police à l’endroit de certaines personnes par rapport …
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Distinguishing homicides and suicides in firearm fatalities: the role of skeletal trauma analysis
… Previous research looking at variation between homicides and suicides in firearm fatalities has used soft tissue trauma analysis and autopsy reports to identify common characteristics specific to these manners of death. They have found that anatomic location of entrance trauma, bullet direction, …
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A Mixed-Method Examination of Homicides Targeting LGBT Individuals in the United States
… identify the heterogeneous nature of anti-LGBT homicides, including possible differences in how victims are targeted by offenders. However, several limitations of prior research have stunted the systematic examination of these circumstances. Few studies, for instance, have disaggregated by crime …
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Examining the Demographic and Situational Characteristics that Predict News-Media Coverage of Bias Homicides:
… from prominent, national papers for 216 bias homicides that occurred between 2000 and 2019 drawn from the Bias Homicide Database (BHDB). Articles are paired with information on the victims, offenders, and the events themselves. Findings speak to the newsworthiness of certain types of lethal …
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Violence against women : epidemiology and pathology of femicides and suspected sexual homicides in Cape Town : a 10-year follow-up study
… and inconsistent management of suspected sexual homicides motivated the author to undertake this follow - up study. Objectives: To describe the epidemiology and pathology of femicides in Cape Town and thereby identify risk factors, magnitude and criteria for suspected sexual homicides. Design and …
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Urban Crime in Latin America: A Case Study from Medellín, Colombia
… cities in the world has seen a sharp decrease in homicides since 2002. This thesis explores the geography of violence in Medellín from 2001 through 2005 with specific emphasis on two factors thought to have contributed to the city's drop in violence: <em>Operación Orión</em>, a police and military …
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A Spatial Analysis of Homicide and Dangerous Buildings in Kansas City, Missouri
… investigates the geographical locations of homicides that occurred in Kansas City, Missouri in 2016 and dangerous buildings as identified by the municipality. Examination indicates independent clustering of homicides and dangerous buildings and this clustering occurs in the same locational …
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Characteristics of domestic homicide perpetrated by persons with severe mental illness - a forensic psychiatry observation population-based study
… or former partner) accounts for 50% - 70% of homicides perpetrated by offenders with mental illness. Despite these statistics, surprisingly little is currently known about the characteristics of domestic homicides perpetrated by those with severe mental illness. To the best of our knowledge, …
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Patterns of death due to blunt force trauma in the West Metropole of the City of Cape Town, South Africa
… associated with blunt force trauma related homicides in South Africa. Information relating to the patterns of blunt force trauma could assist in the implementation of appropriate interventions targeted at specific areas or individuals. Furthermore, it can direct research toward topics in …
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The Evolution of <i>Mara Salvatrucha 13</i> and <i>Barrio 18</i>: Violence, Extortion, and Drug Trafficking in the Northern Triangle of Central America
… to explain the concentration of violence (homicides, extortion, and confrontations). Organized crime and gang concepts were used to evaluate gangs’ evolution with regards to their use of violence, extortion rackets, transformations in organizational structures, and roles in drug trafficking …
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Policing the Police: Conflict Theory and Police Violence in a Racialized Society
… for the first longitudinal analysis of police homicides as a social control outcome, which produces mixed findings on racial and economic threats. As in previous research, purely economic conflict predictions find little support while racial threat hypotheses are at least partially …
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Weapons in the City: Weapon Use in Chicago Homicide Cases
This study used data from the homicides in Chicago 1965-1995 dataset (N=9,340) to examine the relationship between the use of certain types of weapons in criminal homicides by gender, race, age, victim-offender relationship, motive, location, and changes over time. Differential association and …
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ANALISI STATISTICO-CRIMINOLOGICA DEGLI OMICIDI OCCORSI NEL DISTRETTO GIUDIZIARIO DI MILANO E MONZA NEGLI ANNI 2006-2021
A retrospective analysis was conducted of the homicides that occurred in the area under the jurisdiction of the Public Prosecutors of Milan and Monza and were autopsied at the Institute of Forensic Medicine of Milan between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2021. The data was collected from autopsy …
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Utilização do geoprocessamento no mapeamento criminal na região metropolitana de João Pessoa – PB.
… been done a statistical survey of the numbers of homicides occurred in the metropolitan region of João Pessoa and, with those data, graphics, tables and maps were made of the numbers of intentional lethal violent crimes (ILVC) by cities of the metropolitan region as well as by gender and …
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Evidence-Based Sentencing as Applied in a Circuit Court Using Missouri Sentencing Advisory Commission Recommendations
… has been a startling increase in the number of homicides. The reasons for that trend have been difficult to understand; homicides had been steadily declining since a peak in the early 1990's through 2010, only to then see a reversal of the trend with the number of homicides per capita in the …
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Neighborhood characteristics and the spatial concentration of crime: Evidence for Bogotá
… types of crime, violent crime represented in homicides and property crime represented in residential burglaries. These two types of crime are then measured in non-standard crime statistics that are created as the area incidence for each crime in the neighborhood. The existence of crime …
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The History of Gun Control in the United States
… is a correlation between the number of guns, and homicides committed by firearms. The fourth section takes the same analysis on guns, as the third, but at the international level. The third and fourth parts to this paper will reveal whether or not there is a strong correlation between the number …
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Kriminalistinė nusikalstamos veikos analizė /
… proposed. In addition, criminalistic analysis of homicides is performed and the criminalistic characteristics of homicides and its structure are presented in this Master thesis. On the basis of the official statistical data the latest information on murders committed in 2004-2006 is submitted, …
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‘I was there’ and ‘It happened to me’: an exploratory study of the social organization of killing by military police officers and combat soldiers, 1976-1987
… reaction. Applicability of findings to other homicides is discussed.
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