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Showing 1 to 20 of 348 for “"murder"”.
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Compensation in murder cases
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Extenuating circumstances in murder
… This concept applies only to the crime of murder. The introduction of this concept was a welcome development in our law because for the first time a discretion was conferred on a trier of facts notwithstanding the fact that an accused was neither a woman who had been convicted of murdering …
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Serial murder : psychological themes
… were held with people who have committed serial murder. This research thus contributes to a better understanding of the phenomenon of serial murder, which occurs from time to time in communities. Serial murder is operationally defined as three or more seemingly unmotivated murders. Four people …
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Military Versus Civilian Murder-Suicide Psychological Profiles
… harm to others, but none have examined military murder-suicide. This study compared military and civilian murder-suicide perpetrators on a number of demographic, psychological, and contextual factors. Military murder-suicide perpetrators were more likely to be older, suffer physical health …
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Musicalizing murder: defining the 'true crime musical'
… but shows that also integrate a historical murder narrative form a subcategory that I call the “true crime musical.” Taking inspiration from the literary genre of the same name, these true crime musicals present one or more murder narratives and construct a violent world of the play. The …
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Mass murder and motivation : the Rwandan genocide
This project is about mass murderers and the motivation for becoming perpetrators of mass murder. The Rwandan genocide is chosen as a case study. The project strives to explain what seems inexplicable; why tens of thousands of Rwandan men and women turned into killers during the hundred days of …
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'Extenuating circumstances' in the South African law of murder
… into the South African criminal law of murder. 1935 in _tile use of those two words alone. It was left to the course, without any further legislative aid, to provide the definition, structure, and development of the concept. Over the· period of more than forty years there has been), ·no …
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"Youth, murder, spectacle: The cultural politics of ""youth in crisis"""
… on the case of a sensational crime, the ""preppy murder,"" and on four different but interrelated sites of cultural activity: print coverage, the confession, daytime television talk shows, and youth films. The dissertation finds that these intersections of youth and crime correspond to an anxiety …
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The meaning of murder: newspaper framing of hate crimes against lesbians.
… locations (North Carolina and Florida). The 1990 murder of Talana Quay Kreeger and the 2010 murder of Courtney Elizabeth Bright are analyzed in order to illustrate the divergence between these crimes based on location and time. Although lesbians have been identified in both government statistics …
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South African criminology's aetiological crisis: reflections on a century of murder
… It collects official South African police murder statistics over the longest-possible time frame and at the lowest-possible level of aggregation and combines them with census data using Geographic Information System technology. The result is by far the most extensive and defensible possible …
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Canadian University Statements and University Community Responses Following the Murder of George Floyd
In May 2020, the murder of George Floyd spurred global attention and compelled Canada’s research universities to respond to widespread social unrest. This study employs content analysis and critical discourse analysis to examine how power was integrated into statements issued by Canadian …
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Availability Of The Felony-murder Rule Today: Equitable And Just Or Unfair And Excessive?
… research provides an examination of felony murder to determine the similarities and differences among jurisdictions in the nation. It provides a current analysis of jurisprudence to update the literature as to practices in the United States pertaining to the availability of felony murder and …
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Constructing Evil: U.S. Media Discourse and the Iranian State Murder of Neda Agha-Soltan
… of Neda Agha-Soltan, a 26 year old woman whose murder was recorded by cellphone camera during a political protest and subsequently posted to social media networks showing a graphic fist-hand account of the savagery of a state crime. Media discourse presented the idea that Neda's murder was …
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Murder Scenes: Criminal Violence in the Public Culture and Private Lives of Weimar Berlin
… say that Weimar was doomed to fail; rather, that murder cases provided narratives though which citizens made sense of crisis and modernity itself. Murder was more than a symbol for public anxieties, however. In a period of unparalleled efforts on the part of police to professionalize itself and to …
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Beyond a reasonable doubt: how South African courts assess eyewitness testimony in murder trials
… I have conducted a content analysis of thirteen murder cases heard by the Western Cape High Court between 2007 and 2021 to consider how the Court considers the role of human memory in eyewitness testimony. Using thematic analysis, I show how the Court has appeared to weigh various factors that …
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