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Matsuyama, Kyoko. "Predator or Prey Who Do You Think You Are?" Critical Survey 33, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 119–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/cs.2021.330109.
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In the Japanese animation PSYCHO-PASS, the setting is a future Japan where every citizen’s mental health is monitored and analysed, and where they can sometimes be terminated according to the state of their mental health. In such a dark and dystopian setting, the motifs from the many bloody quotations of Shakespeare’s bloodiest play Titus Andronicus are used in the three-episode multiple murder case of young schoolgirls. The animation shows how Shakespeare is used to stylise and elaborate the serial murder case. This article discusses how Titus Andronicus is used to give relevance and sophistication to serial murder, and how the bloodiness of a serial murder can give a different impression to audiences by the use of literature.
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McCarthy, Patrick, and Richard Drake. "The Aldo Moro Murder Case." South Central Review 14, no. 2 (1997): 88. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3189959.
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Puspitasari, Astrya, and Diya Ul Akmal. "KEKUATAN PEMBUKTIAN HASIL PEMERIKSAAN LABORATORIUM FORENSIK SEBAGAI ALAT BUKTI DALAM KASUS TINDAK PIDANA PEMBUNUHAN." Justitia et Pax 38, no. 2 (December 14, 2022): 147–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.24002/jep.v38i2.5920.
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Murder is a crime that both violates humanity and the law. Murders can be influenced by a variety of factors, including personal issues, economic hardships, and other concerns. The process of investigating murder cases necessitates the use of a Forensic Laboratory Examination to identify evidence and clues that will be used as legal evidence in court later. The aim of the research is to examine the role of evidence from Forensic Laboratory examination results in developing a judge's conviction in a murder case. This is a qualitative study that employs a normative legal method. The data used are secondary data gathered from literature studies and interviews at the National Police Headquarters Forensic Laboratory Center. In general, Forensic Laboratory examination results are utilized as evidence and instructions that can corroborate evidence. The Forensic Laboratory examination results can be utilized as documentary evidence (visum et repertum), expert testimonies, and evidence directives. The Forensic Laboratory investigation's findings are crucial in determining the judge's conviction, particularly in cases of murder. The judge's conviction must be founded on the fact that the defendant committed murder. As a result, the role of proving the Forensic Laboratory examination results is expected to guide the judge's conviction to get material truth. The expected implication is that the values of justice will be fulfilled in the Indonesian criminal justice system.
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Ono, Erika. "Reformulating the Use of Battered Woman Syndrome Testimonies in Canadian Law." Affilia 32, no. 1 (December 1, 2016): 24–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886109916679862.
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This article examines the use of battered woman syndrome (BWS) expert testimonies in Canadian case law, regarding cases involving murder or attempted murder of abusive partners by women in violent intimate relationships. The purpose of this article is to contribute to literature about the use of BWS evidence in Canadian jurisprudence with connections to social work. The author provides a historical overview of the use of BWS testimonies in Canada and presents case examples. The article explores the benefits of BWS testimonies, its limitations, recommendations for reformulating its use, and implications for social work practice.
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Strange, Carolyn, Collin Payne, and Fiona Fraser. "Gender, intimate partner homicide, and rurality in early-twentieth-century New South Wales." Social Science History 46, no. 4 (2022): 777–800. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2022.18.
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AbstractRural criminological literature on lethal domestic violence and feminist historical research on the patriarchal judgment of women accused of killing male intimate partners (IPs) have developed a dystopic image of the past for nonurban women. This paper questions that impression by asking whether women were more likely than men to be convicted of IP murder, and whether rural women were treated more harshly than urban women. Through quantitative analysis of 221 IP murder trials in New South Wales, 1901–1955, plus four representative case studies, it reveals that women tried for IP murders in rural areas were treated more leniently than their urban counterparts and significantly less harshly than male perpetrators of IP homicide. This paper demonstrates how historical criminological analysis of illustrative qualitative evidence, grounded in quantitative data on locational distinctions, can expose significant variations over time and place in the fate of abused women prosecuted for IP homicide.
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Khoele, Kwena B., Paul H. De Wet, Hermanus W. Pretorius, and Jaqui Sommerville. "Case series of females charged with murder or attempted murder of minors and referred to Weskoppies Hospital in terms of the Criminal Procedure Act over a period of 21 years." South African Journal of Psychiatry 22, no. 1 (May 6, 2016): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajpsychiatry.v22i1.887.
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Women charged with murder or attempted murders of children are usually sent for forensic psychiatric evaluation. In South Africa research and literature on this population is scarce. A case series was studied of forensic files of 32 females charged with murder or attempted murder of children. These files contained information of such females. The forensic psychiatric observation was mainly to establish whether a psychiatric diagnosis could be made, and whether they were triable and accountable. Files from 01 Jan 1990 to 31 Dec 2010 (21 years) were obtained of cases observed in Weskoppies Hospital. The aim of describing these case series was to attempt to find a psychiatric profile of such cases, as well as to find other information e.g. Demographics. The findings, after forensic observation regarding their ability to follow court proceedings and their ability to contribute meaningfully to their defence (triability) as well as their ability to distinguish between right and wrong, and their ability to act in accordance with the said appreciation (accountability) at the time of the alleged offence were also reported. This information could contribute to make medical practitioners and mental health care workers aware of risk factors involving such cases and to encourage them to enquire about these risk factors.
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Wattis, Louise. "The social nature of serial murder: The intersection of gender and modernity." European Journal of Women's Studies 24, no. 4 (April 8, 2016): 381–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350506816641722.
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The literature on the aetiology of serial killing has benefited from analyses which offer an alternative perspective to individual/psychological approaches and consider serial murder as a sociological phenomenon. The main argument brought to bear within this body of work identifies the socio-economic and cultural conditions of modernity as enabling and legitimating the motivations and actions of the serial killer. This article interrogates this work from the standpoint of a gendered reading of modernity. Using the Yorkshire Ripper case, it emphasizes how in addition to the political economy, gender relations and masculinity shape the dynamics of serial murder and its representation.
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During, Simon. "The Strange Case of Monomania: Patriarchy in Literature, Murder in Middlemarch, Drowning in Daniel Deronda." Representations 23, no. 1 (July 1988): 86–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.1988.23.1.99p0232h.
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During, Simon. "The Strange Case of Monomania: Patriarchy in Literature, Murder in Middlemarch, Drowning in Daniel Deronda." Representations 23 (1988): 86–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2928567.
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Phelps, Henry C. "Literary History/Unsolved Mystery:The Great Gatsbyand the Hall-Mills Murder Case." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews 14, no. 3 (January 2001): 33–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08957690109598163.
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Gurian, Elizabeth A. "Reframing Serial Murder Within Empirical Research." International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 61, no. 5 (July 28, 2016): 544–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624x15598572.
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Empirical research on serial murder is limited due to the lack of consensus on a definition, the continued use of primarily descriptive statistics, and linkage to popular culture depictions. These limitations also inhibit our understanding of these offenders and affect credibility in the field of research. Therefore, this comprehensive overview of a sample of 508 cases (738 total offenders, including partnered groups of two or more offenders) provides analyses of solo male, solo female, and partnered serial killers to elucidate statistical differences and similarities in offending and adjudication patterns among the three groups. This analysis of serial homicide offenders not only supports previous research on offending patterns present in the serial homicide literature but also reveals that empirically based analyses can enhance our understanding beyond traditional case studies and descriptive statistics. Further research based on these empirical analyses can aid in the development of more accurate classifications and definitions of serial murderers.
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Walsh, Lisl. "Murder, Interrupted: Seneca’s Medea and the Case of the Second Child." Helios 45, no. 1 (2018): 69–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hel.2018.0002.
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Fitri, Aulia Ineke. "The Role of Forensic Medicine in Disclosing Premediated Killers (Study of Decision No. 116/Pid.B/2019/PN.Bms)." UMPurwokerto Law Review 1, no. 2 (August 29, 2020): 78. http://dx.doi.org/10.30595/umplr.v1i2.8658.
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Forensic medical science is a science that is used for legal purposes by providing scientific evidence that can be used in solving crimes, especially the crime of murder. This science studies the cause of death, identification, state of post-mortem corpses. This study will discuss the role of forensic medicine in uncovering the crime of premeditated murder in case no. 116/Pid.B/2019/PN.Bms. The research method used is normative juridical, which is carried out through a literature study that examines secondary data in legislation and other legal documents, research results, assessment results, other references and is equipped with interviews. This study concludes that forensic medicine plays an essential role in investigating the crime of premeditated murder in case no. 116/Pid.B/2019/PN.Bms because of the need to identify corpses that have become bones and charred, so how important it is that forensic medicine is poured into evidence in the letter category in the form of Visum et Repertum, which by police investigators is under Article 133 of the Criminal Procedure Code to be used as legal evidence in uncovering and seeking the material truth of a criminal act that occurred. Suggestions in this study include providing education to the public regarding the treatment of evidence and the crime scene to change the disclosure of cases. Keywords: Classification, Inheritance Certificate, Discrimination
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Bayer, Gerd. "On (not) Watching The Lady in Number 6: Digital Holocaust Film, Copyright Infringement and the Obligation to Remember." Pólemos 14, no. 2 (September 25, 2020): 337–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pol-2020-2021.
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AbstractThis article discusses the tension between the legal framework of copyright and the moral obligation, as framed in Holocaust studies, to remember the atrocities of the Nazi murder of European Jewry. Starting with the case study of a recent award-winning film, The Lady in Number 6, the essay takes the movie’s difficult availability as an occasion to reflect upon the need to access and distribute this film, even if this creates conflicts with copyright laws, situating this discussion in the larger discussion about law and literature.
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OSBORN, MARIJANE. "THE ALLEGED MURDER OF HRETHRIC IN BEOWULF." Traditio 74 (2019): 153–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/tdo.2019.9.
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A scenario well known to Beowulf scholars alleges that after Beowulf has slain the monsters and gone home, Hrothulf, nephew of the Danish king Hrothgar, will murder prince Hrethric to gain the throne when the old king dies. This story, that many Anglo-Saxonists assume is integral to the ancient legend of these kings, is a modern misreading of the poet's allusions to events associated with the Scylding dynasty — a legendary history that the poet arguably takes care to follow. The present essay, in two parts, first shows how the idea of Hrothulf's treachery arose and became canonical under the influence of prestigious English and American scholars, then finds fault with this idea, refuting its “proof” from Saxo Grammaticus and showing how some Anglo-Saxonists have doubted that Beowulf supports an interpretation making Hrothulf a murderer. But when the poet's allusions to future treachery are ambiguous, at least for modern readers, in order to exonerate Hrothulf fully one must go to traditions about the Scylding dynasty outside the poem. Scandinavian regnal lists (including one that Saxo himself incorporates) consistently contradict the event the Saxo passage has been used to prove, as they agree on a sequence of Scylding rulers with names corresponding to those of persons in Beowulf. Attention to this traditional sequence exposes Hrothulf's murder of Hrethric as a logical impossibility. Moreover, the early medieval method of selecting rulers suggests that neither did Hrothulf usurp the throne of Denmark. In sum, careful scrutiny of the best Scandinavian evidence and rejection of the worst reveals Beowulf's “treacherous Hrothulf” to be a scholarly fantasy.
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Patronnikova, Yulia S. "Emilio De Marchi’s Novel “The Priest’s Hat”: the Origins of Italian Giallo." Studia Litterarum 7, no. 1 (2022): 146–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-1-146-169.
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The paper examines Emilio De Marchi’s novel “The priest’s hat” (1888) as a precursor of detective fiction in Italy. Influenced by Dostoevsky and the French tradition (Gaborio) with its attention to characters’ psychology, De Marchi tells the story of “crime and punishment” that contains crucial elements of detective fiction. The plot revolves around the priest’s murder. The only evidence, his hat, determines how the detective story unfolds — it introduces the mystery, hints at the crime, and sparks the investigation. The case is officially led by the investigating judge. The story also contains untypical genre elements: not fully developed character of the detective (whose function is performed by several characters); the absence of the mystery as to who is the criminal; the investigation’s secondary role; and, most importantly, it’s resolution in a psychological way. De Marchi’s focus is placed on the inner conflict of the perpetrator. The guilt makes the hero lose his mind and at the case’s hearings he unwittingly confesses that he is the murderer. The justice is restored, but the crucial role is played not by human ingenuity (as in a typical detective story) but by the fate: the supreme force prevents the perpetrator from getting away with the crime.
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Langa, Malose, Adele Kirsten, Brett Bowman, Gill Eagle, and Peace Kiguwa. "Black Masculinities on Trial in Absentia: The Case of Oscar Pistorius in South Africa." Men and Masculinities 23, no. 3-4 (March 14, 2018): 499–515. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184x18762523.
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This article explores the social representation of black masculinities as violent in the globally publicized case of the murder by Oscar Pistorius of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. This murder and the subsequent media interest it generated highlighted the manner in which fear of crime in South Africa, particularly amongst certain sectors of the population such as white, male gun owners and gun lobbyists, (including Pistorius and his family members) contributed to assertions about their right to own guns to defend their families and possessions against this perceived threat. Such claims were made despite statistical evidence showing that black South Africans are more likely to be victims of violent crime than white South Africans. Drawing upon media coverage of the trial, this article critically discusses the intersection between masculinity and racial identity with a particular focus on gun ownership as a symbol of hegemonic white manhood, and the parallel construction of black masculinities as violent and dangerous. The Oscar Pistorius trial offers rich material for this analysis: his entire defence was based on the view that the intruder he feared was almost certainly a black man who, as a legitimate target for the use of lethal force in self-defence, deserved to die from the four bullets fired through a closed door. It is argued that in his absence, the black man was ever-present at the Oscar Pistorius trial as a threatening figure whose calling into being was revealing of how black masculinities continue to be represented, relayed and received in particular ways in post-apartheid South Africa.
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Thakare, VJ, AA Pande, VB Mahajan, AG Gedam, MM Todkar, and MB Satghare. "MULTIDISCIPLINARY FORENSIC ANALYSIS ACTS AS AN EYEWITNESS TO LINK THE CRIME- CULPRIT- CRIME SCENE- DECEASED. - AN INTERESTING CASE STUDY." International Journal of Engineering Applied Sciences and Technology 7, no. 4 (August 1, 2022): 99–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.33564/ijeast.2022.v07i04.014.
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: Different types of evidence found on the crime scene can be classified into biological, chemical, physical, and digital. Biological evidence is a person's body fluids, hair, tissue, etc, chemical evidence is any material used in the crime such as poison, drugs, inflammable substances, chili powder, etc, objects such as weapons, soil, fibers, broken glass piece, etc constitute physical evidence and digital evidence includes CCTV footage, online purchase history of weapons, mobile phones, pen drive, etc. These evidences are analyzed by different disciplines of forensic science like Biology, DNA, Chemistry, Toxicology, Ballistics, and Cyber. In a gruesome murder that took place in broad daylight, the victim's car was surrounded by a few people at a traffic signal. Car's window glasses were broken and he was brutally murdered using sharp-edged weapons. Forensic Science Laboratory helped the investigating agency to collect evidences at the crime scene. Almost every discipline of forensic science was involved in the analysis of the evidences found (biological, chemical, physical and digital). Detection, assessment and interpretation of the evidences aided to fix the crime scene, the presence of the accused on the crime scene and his involvement in the crime. This multidisciplinary analysis freed the investigating agency from dependency on eyewitnesses. Thus, scientific evidence from various disciplines of forensic science contributed their part and completed the whole picture of murder.
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Putu Ayu Devi Laxsmi, I Ketut Sukadana, and I Nyoman Sujana. "Pembunuhan Anak oleh Ibu Kandung yang di Bawah Umur." Jurnal Preferensi Hukum 2, no. 1 (March 19, 2021): 188–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.22225/jph.2.1.3066.188-192.
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A phenomenon of the occurrence of criminal acts committed by children with various and various cases and characteristics that have not been able to account for their actions legally, which in Law Number 11 of 2012 concerning the Juvenile Justice System, is intended to provide protection and protection for children in to welcome his long-term future, but besides children as victims of criminal acts, it is possible for children to be criminals. Therefore, how is the judge's judgment in imposing a criminal sentence on a child who commits a criminal act of murder in Decision Number: 18/Pid.Sus.Anak/2016/PN. Dps? And what is the criminal sanction imposed by the judge on the perpetrator of the crime of murder the Number: 18 /Pid.Sus.Anak/2016/PN. Dps. In this study the author uses the Normative research method through his study of literature studies, while the problem approach in this study uses a legislative approach that analyzes legislation and uses a conceptual approach that analyzes problems with legal concepts from books and literature and approaches the case. The results of this study are Judges in considering criminal cases Number: 18/Pid.Sus.Anak /2016/PN. DPS, which is carried out by children because the perpetrators of criminal offenses are still underage, and have never committed an unlawful act before and promised not to repeat other violations of law. And Based on the case of killing a child as referred to in case Number: 18/Pid.Sus.Anak/2016 /PN. DPS, the coercion of criminal sanctions is not applied, but the implementation of Diversion lead on number 11 of 2012 concerning juvenile justyce sistem and in paragraph (2) letters a and b must be sought for Diversion, with terms and conditions Parents are willing to maintain, guide and supervise their children so that they will not repeat their actions.
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Romero, Dario. "Insecurity or Perception of Insecurity? Urban Crime and Dissatisfaction with Life: Evidence from the Case of Bogotá." Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy 20, no. 1 (January 1, 2014): 169–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/peps-2013-0057.
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AbstractIn recent literature, life satisfaction and welfare have been extensively studied. However, limited attention has been given to the effect that crime may have over these variables. Using the case of Bogotá this paper shows that urban crime rates, specially murder rate, have a positive impact on individuals’ life dissatisfaction. This effect seems to be mediated by the general perception of insecurity and not by the households’ victimization. In particular the perception of insecurity has a great impact on the unhappiness of those households that changed their perceptions because of the criminal activity. The conclusion of this paper is that it is necessary not only to reduce the crime rates, but also to generate good security perceptions.
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Aquila, Isabella, Matteo Antonio Sacco, Fabrizio Cordasco, Carmen Scalise, Francesco Maria Galassi, Elena Varotto, Walter Caruso, Valerio Riccardo Aquila, and Pietrantonio Ricci. "The Role of Forensic Investigation in an Unusual Case of Patricide by a Schizophrenic Woman Involving Dismemberment of a Decomposed Body." Diagnostics 12, no. 7 (June 29, 2022): 1577. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12071577.
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Dismemberment is characterized by the fragmentation of the body into anatomical sections. It can occur because of a murder, suicide, or accident. In the literature, there are no cases of patricide perpetrated by a daughter in which the offender performed the dismemberment. However, in this paper, we reported a case of patricide by a schizophrenic daughter that was not treated with antipsychotic therapy. Post-mortem Computed Tomography (PMCT), autopsy, and histological examinations were performed. The soft tissues were removed through maceration techniques and chemical treatment. An analysis was performed to study the bone margins and clarify the weapon and manner of death. This investigation, which used radiological and histological studies, helped to assess the vitality of the injuries. The purpose of the study is to discover the weapon used, the cause, and the manner of death, with particular interest in this case due to the dismemberment. Moreover, we emphasize the correlation between patricide, dismemberment, and a lack of antipsychotic treatment in patients with schizophrenia.
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Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn. "TROUBLE WITH SHE-DICKS: PRIVATE EYES AND PUBLIC WOMEN INTHE ADVENTURES OF LOVEDAY BROOKE, LADY DETECTIVE." Victorian Literature and Culture 33, no. 1 (March 2005): 47–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150305000720.
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C. L. (CATHERINE LOUISA)PIRKIS'S“The Murder at Troyte's Hill,” second in her series of stories about Detective Loveday Brooke, begins with Brooke's boss debriefing her on a case: “Griffiths, of the Newcastle Constabulary, has the case in hand…. Those Newcastle men are keen-witted, shrewd fellows, and very jealous of outside interference. They only sent to me under protest, as it were, because they wanted your sharp wits at work inside the house” (528). This is a typical beginning for one of Brooke's adventures, which were published in the London magazineLudgate Monthlyin 1893 and 1894. As one of the earliest professional female detectives in English literary history, Brooke's career was marked by conflicts with territorial male officers and the ever-present pressure to keep her detective work “inside the house.” Emerging at a historical moment when understandings of women, criminality, and law enforcement were rapidly changing in Britain, Pirkis's stories offer an interpretation of these intersecting cultural shifts that is surprisingly different from her contemporaries. In a decade rife with scientific interrogation into the nature of criminality, such as in the work of Havelock Ellis and Francis Galton, detective fiction of the 1890s tended to mimic scientific discourse in its representations of criminals. The Brooke stories, however, challenge such conceptions of deviance and reveal the poverty of their underlying understandings of crime as well as gender.
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Fodstad, Lars August. "Mordmedieringer." European Journal of Scandinavian Studies 51, no. 2 (October 1, 2021): 235–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2021-2041.
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Abstract The so-called Torgersen case is one of the most famous murder cases and criminal proceedings in modern Norwegian history, as it started in the late 1950s and still figures in the judicial system, even after the convict’s death. Among the multitude of medial occurrences in the wake of the case we find three dramas, including Finn Iunker’s Det skjendige drapet i skippergata. In this article Iunker’s play is studied in a media archeological perspective, informed by German materialist media theory, focusing on media technology, communication systems, transmission, noise, and meta mediality. A key assertion is that Iunker’s play not only can be studied through the lens of media archeology, but to a certain extent can be read as media archeological excavation of the past, focusing on hypermedial aspects such as noise. Finally, the media archeological approach allows for a brief discussion on drama form and modern media culture.
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Hier, Sean. "Almost famous: Peter Woodcock, media framing, and obscurity in the cultural construction of a serial killer." Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal 16, no. 3 (September 11, 2019): 375–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1741659019874171.
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This article contributes to criminological research on cultural constructions of serial murderers by investigating the little-known Canadian case of Peter Woodcock. There is a tacit scholarly consensus that news media routinely sensationalize modern serial killers as celebrity monsters. The case of Woodcock aligns with a different theoretical trajectory geared toward explaining the relative obscurity of otherwise “made for primetime” serial murder events. Examining coverage in the local and national press, the article builds on the sparse literature concerned with absences in conventional explanations for how news media participate in the cultural construction of serial murderers. It does so by gleaning insights into the ways in which Woodcock was simultaneously framed as a sadistic sex maniac responsible for killing three young children in the 1950s and a victim of social circumstance owing to his troubled upbringing. Although Woodcock killed before the rise of the serial killer claims-making industry in the 1980s, the article concludes by reflecting on the curious absence of a retroactively reconstructed modern melodramatic storyline in light of the surreal characteristics of the investigation leading up to his arrest and the circumstances that enabled him to gruesomely kill again in 1991.
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Azhari, Muh. "The Impact Singer & Jipen of Dayak Tribe on Environmental Sustainability in Central of Borneo." International Journal of Architecture and Urbanism 3, no. 1 (March 31, 2019): 43–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.32734/ijau.v3i1.774.
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The environment is a mandate that must be maintained, because a good environment will produce a generation that is good and strong. Poor environmental management will create new problems. Ethics that regulate environmental management can maintain environmental conditions and reduce the rate of environmental change, for example by the presence of singer and jipen owned by the Central Of Borneo Dayak Tribe. Singer is a punishment and jipen is the amount of customary punishment given to someone who commits a customary offense. A detrimental activity will distrub the productivity of the environment, with the singer and jipen will be able to reduce the rate of damage. Case examples of the application of singer and jipen such as the Wilmar Group case, productive Durian Tree Cutting, Murder, even defamation, singer and jipen giving in accordance with the impact of the case, whether it is detrimental on a small or large scale and determined. The sentence was determined by the kepala adat / mantir / demang. The research used is a type of ethnography with data collection techniques by observation, interviews and literature studies.
Keyword: Singer, Jipen, Dayak tribe & Environmental
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Kaye, Richard A. "THE WILDE MOMENT." Victorian Literature and Culture 30, no. 1 (March 2002): 347–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150302301177.
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IS THERE A VICTORIAN WRITER who has won as much attention in the last few years, critical or popular, as Oscar Wilde? One or two decades ago, Hardy, Dickens, and the Brontës were the Victorians that large numbers of people wanted to read, discuss, and see on film and stage. It seems like another era that saw Nicholas Nickelby ruling on the Great White Way. The decline of Dickens’s mass appeal was probably signaled some time ago with an episode of the TV series Law and Order in which a murder case resulted from a business feud over a disastrous Broadway production of Bleak House. The Brontës have fared no better; the musical Jane Eyre, after some of the worst reviews ever to have greeted a musical, recently closed on Broadway, its producers in its last weeks having resorted to advertising on milk cartons. Although Hardy reportedly continues to top the sales of nineteenth-century British classics, Michael Winterbottom’s 2001 film adaptation of The Mayor of Casterbridge, set during the California Gold Rush, played to mixed reviews and nearly empty theaters, its gloomy fealty to the spirit of Hardy’s fiction, not unlike Winterbottom’s brooding version of Jude the Obscure, an evident obstacle for most audiences.
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Al Masud, Abdullah, and Md Faruk Abdullah. "ABU RAYHAN AL-BIRUNI’S STUDY OF OTHER RELIGIONS: A CASE ON HINDUISM." Journal of Nusantara Studies (JONUS) 6, no. 2 (June 30, 2021): 116–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jonus.vol6iss2pp116-132.
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Studying other religions is a legacy left by medieval Muslim scholars. As a Muslim scholar, al-Biruni’s Kitab al-Hind was a unique contribution to the study of Hinduism. This study explores al-Biruni’s approaches to studying Hinduism, culture, and civilisation by reviewing related manuscripts and literature. Al-Biruni studied the Hindu scripture in its original language. He investigated Hindu theology and philosophy, their caste system in the society, law and ethics, rituals, and festivals. In Kitab al-Hind, an entire chapter was dedicated to Hindu scriptures which included Veda and Puranas. Concerning religious beliefs and divinity, there were various perceptions between the educated and uneducated people. Murti puja was a form of worship to express love and devotion towards God. However, the educated classes considered that idols were no more than intermediaries, and the idol-worshippers were being deluded from the actual worship of God. The Hindu caste system was established upon religious foundations where every caste used to have their mode of living and daily routine. Furthermore, Hindu rules, guidelines, and religious laws were developed by divine sages called Rishis, who provided laws of murder and theft, punishment of adultery, treatment for prisoners, and inheritance law. Al-Biruni took an objective, in-depth, scientific and authentic approach in presenting Hinduism, which made his work accepted by both Muslim and nonMuslim religious scholars. It is hoped that this paper would offer new perspectives to Muslim scholars on studying other religions, which may consequently enhance religious harmony in a multireligious society.
Keywords: Al-Biruni, Hinduism, religion, comparative religion, Muslim scholar.
Cite as: Al Masud, A., & Abdullah, M. F. (2021). Abu Rayhan Al-Biruni’s study of other religions: A case on Hinduism. Journal of Nusantara Studies, 6(2), 116-132. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jonus.vol6iss2pp116-132
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Stek, M. "Euthanasia, Physician Assisted Suicide in the Netherlands in Dementia and Late Life Psychiatric Illness." European Psychiatry 41, S1 (April 2017): S11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.01.085.
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BackgroundAlthough controversial in many countries, in The Netherlands euthanasia or physician assisted death has increased in patients with early stages of dementia, psychiatric illness and in conditions described as ‘being tired of life’ in the oldest old. There is a strong debate about this practice in the community and among professionals often with exclamation marks ranging from medical murder to providing ultimate care.ObjectiveTo provide figures, describe current practice and debate in The Netherlands with regard to capacity evaluation in older psychiatric patients and end of life questions.MethodsReview of literature, case reports and own experience in the past decade.Result and conclusionThere are few studies on the important issue of capacity making in psychiatric patients. The research that was performed does not show that a high threshold of capacity is required for granting euthanasia. Research on physician-assisted death in early dementia is scarce. With regard to end of life questions the debate in The Netherlands is still ongoing.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his declaration of competing interest.
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Chen, Yihang. "A Review of Reasoning Variety Shows in China." BCP Social Sciences & Humanities 19 (August 30, 2022): 11–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.54691/bcpssh.v19i.1545.
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In 2016, reasoning variety shows represented by “Who’s the Murderer” developed rapidly and received wide attention from academics. This paper combs through relevant literature and finds that research on reasoning variety shows focuses on program content construction, communication and marketing strategies, and impact and inspiration. However, the studies are mainly case studies, with limited perspectives, single case selection and insufficient depth of theoretical research.
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Babazadeh, Masiar, Luca Botturi, and Giacomo Reggiani. "Let's Jazz: a Case Study on Teaching Music with Educational Escape Rooms." European Conference on Games Based Learning 16, no. 1 (September 29, 2022): 656–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.34190/ecgbl.16.1.854.
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Escape rooms have been proven to be a functional game-based approach to teach a variety of subjects. Teachers as well as students are eager to play escape rooms in the classroom; field studies have demonstrated how escape games are a memorable activity with a high retention rate, especially if followed by a proper debriefing session, in which learnings emerged and are made consistent. In recent years literature on educational escape rooms has grown, yet there is little body of research on educational escape rooms on music education. In this paper we present an educational escape room about Afro-American music at the beginning of the past century. The players are asked to solve a murder case happened in the backstage of a jazz club in New Orleans. Such scenario gives the players/students the opportunity to "experience", within the escape room context, cultural and historical details and characteristics related to this musical genre. The puzzles within the escape room are formally related to jazz and Afro-American music, giving players/students the possibility to learn and have a "first-hand" experience with concepts that would otherwise remain purely theoretical within a normal classroom environment. Learning has been measured by the means of a 3-step test design: the pre-test was administered before playing the escape room, the first post-test was administered right after playing the escape room and before the debriefing, while the second post-test was administered two weeks after the debriefing phase. From a qualitative point of view the teacher has noticed high motivation while playing the game, with respect to a normal classroom activity. The quantitative results of the second post-test have shown students have retained many of the concepts presented within the escape room and this highlights the importance of a debriefing phase to consolidate learning after playing an educational escape room.
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Suarez Estrada, Marcela, Yulissa Juarez, and C. A. Piña-García. "Toxic Social Media: Affective Polarization After Feminist Protests." Social Media + Society 8, no. 2 (April 2022): 205630512210983. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20563051221098343.
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The objective of this article is to conceptualize affective polarization beyond partisan politics to instead analyze the ways in which women’s affective political participation is subject to toxic discipline. While a lot of focus has been placed on affective politics as mechanisms for governance, little has been done regarding affective polarization after feminist protest. In this article, we bridge two bodies of literature—affective politics and political polarization—by proposing the notion of affective polarization. We focused on the case of a series of feminist mobilizations that took place to fight back against the impunity of police violence in Mexico. We conducted a mixed-method approach that combines, on one hand, quantitative analysis of data strand tweets encompassing #EllasNoMeRepresentan (TheyDoNotRepresentMe) ( N = 17,698) and #EllasSiMeRepresentan (TheyDoRepresentMe) ( N = 6700) and, on the other hand, a qualitative analysis of 500 tweets of each hashtag. The results of the study revealed the existence of polarization that aims at disciplining the affective political participation of women. Almost half of our data contain negative sentiments. The toxic tweets include corrective threats, such as incitation to sexual violence, murder, hate against feminism, and patronizing discourses about how women should protest. We thus conclude that while it is true that social media has amplified feminist mobilization, it has also led to an increase of digital violence. With these findings, the article contributes to a better understanding of both feminist affective politics and its disciplining governing mechanisms in a patriarchal social media.
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Trolley, Barbara C. "A Bridge between Traumatic Life Events and Losses by Death." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 28, no. 4 (June 1994): 285–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/gper-r5ye-48nk-1lbm.
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The bereavement process associated with losses by death has been well documented. More recently, the existence of a grief reaction following certain traumatic life events has been recognized. A main purpose of this article is to provide support for such a connection. Reactions to a gamut of life traumas (alcoholism, abuse, disability, divorce, and infertility) are discussed within the context of a grief framework. Literature pertaining to the responses to suicide and murder is applied to traumatic life events. Proposed differences between death related bereavement and reactions to life traumas are discussed and dissolved. Through this discussion, an attempt is made to generalize grief work to a broader range of traumatic life situations. Another central goal of this review is to offer a unified conceptualization of loss among differential life and death traumas. Emphasis is on the common bond which exists among these survivors without disregard to the presence of individual differences. Clinical implications are briefly reviewed with respect to assessment, diagnostic choice and utilization of interventions.
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Murayama, Toshikatsu. "A PROFESSIONAL CONTEST OVER THE BODY: QUACKERY AND RESPECTABLE MEDICINE IN MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT." Victorian Literature and Culture 30, no. 2 (August 27, 2002): 403–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s106015030230202xh.
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IT IS NOT LIKELY THAT MANY readers of Martin Chuzzlewit will remember Mr. Bevan’s profession. The gentleman so kind as to lend Martin and Mark Tapley money to go back to England is not just one of few honest persons in the vulgar, shoddy world of Dickens’s America, but a doctor as well: “[H]e made Martin acquainted with his name, which was Bevan: and with his profession, which was physic, though he seldom or never practised” (280; ch.17). We find many other medical persons in the novel: Jobling the doctor, Lewsome the medical assistant, and Mrs. Gamp, the most famous or notorious nurse in English literature, but they are not highly commendable characters and never offer effective cures to their patients. Jobling is a pretentious swindler, and Lewsome assists, albeit unintentionally, Jonas Chuzzlewit’s attempt to murder his father. One would be reluctant to be nursed by Sairey Gamp, however tremendous she is as a product of a great literary imagination. As if to endorse the reader’s suspicion, Old Martin Chuzzlewit does not trust any doctors and has an amateur, Mary Graham, carry “a small medicine-chest” to care for him (26; ch. 3). The doctor treating Lewsome never seems very efficient in his practice (410, 416; ch. 26), and the only apparently reliable doctor “seldom or never practise[s].” No doctor or nurse can give proper treatment to the numerous sick people in this text full of physical disorders.
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Fox, Jeffrey H., Frederick M. Burkle, Judith Bass, Francesco A. Pia, Jonathan L. Epstein, and David Markenson. "The Effectiveness of Psychological First Aid as a Disaster Intervention Tool: Research Analysis of Peer-Reviewed Literature From 1990-2010." Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 6, no. 3 (October 2012): 247–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/dmp.2012.39.
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ABSTRACTObjective: The Advisory Council of the American Red Cross Disaster Services requested that an independent study determine whether first-aid providers without professional mental health training, when confronted with people who have experienced a traumatic event, offer a “safe, effective and feasible intervention.”Methods: Standard databases were searched by an expert panel from 1990 to September 2010 using the keyword phrase “psychological first aid.” Documents were included if the process was referred to as care provided to victims, first responders, or volunteers and excluded if it was not associated with a disaster or mass casualty event, or was used after individual nondisaster traumas such as rape and murder. This search yielded 58 citations.Results: It was determined that adequate scientific evidence for psychological first aid is lacking but widely supported by expert opinion and rational conjecture. No controlled studies were found. There is insufficient evidence supporting a treatment standard or a treatment guideline.Conclusion: Sufficient evidence for psychological first aid is widely supported by available objective observations and expert opinion and best fits the category of “evidence informed” but without proof of effectiveness. An intervention provided by volunteers without professional mental health training for people who have experienced a traumatic event offers an acceptable option. Further outcome research is recommended.(Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2012;6:247–252)
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HEILMANN, ANN, and MARK LLEWELLYN. "What Kitty Knew." Nineteenth-Century Literature 59, no. 3 (December 1, 2004): 372–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2004.59.3.372.
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Framed by sensational Ripper stories that turned fact into �ction and lurid murder into gripping reading matter, the extraordinary popularity of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), George du Maurier's Trilby (1894), and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) clearly indicate that the �n de si�cle was a time enthralled by the concept of split selves and sadistic impulses, of insidious male desires metaphorically and literally inscribed on the body of unconscious, hysterical, or hypnotized women. With his John Norton narratives of the late 1880s to mid 1890s, George Moore made a signi�cant contribution to this important cultural preoccupation in late-Victorian literature and culture. In this essay we trace the development of the theme in Moore's A Mere Accident (1887), Mike Fletcher (1889), and "John Norton" (which appeared in his collection Celibates, 1895). We read Moore's stories in the context of the emerging discourses of psychoanalysis and its reliance upon and relation to earlier work on the theories of the "double brain" and "multiplex personality". We also draw on works of late-nineteenth-century sexology-Havelock Ellis's Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1897-1910) and Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis (�rst published in German, 1886)-in order to explore the psycho-sexual nature of the malaise that af�icts the Norton character and highlight his ambivalent role in the "accident" that befalls the vicar's daughter, Kitty Hare. In addition, we pay close attention to the proto-Freudian language of dreams that haunt Kitty in the aftermath of her assault, arguing that in his "John Norton" narratives Moore engaged with the evolving concept of trauma. These stories, we argue, re�ect an important and hitherto neglected aspect of late-Victorian narrative explorations of hysteria and sexual pathology.
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Dogra, T. D., Antoon A. Leenaars, R. K. Chadha, Mehta Manju, Sanjeev Lalwani, Mamta Sood, David Lester, Anupuma Raina, and C. Behera. "A Psychological Profile of a Serial Killer: A Case Report." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 65, no. 4 (December 2012): 299–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/om.65.4.d.
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Serial killers have always fascinated society. A serial killer is typically defined as a perpetrator who murders three or more people over a period of time. Most reported cases of serial killers come from the United States and Canada. In India, there are few reported cases. We present, to the best of our knowledge, the first Indian case in the literature. The present case is of a 28-year-old man, Surinder Koli. The Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delphi handled the forensic study. We present a most unique psychological investigation into the mind of a serial killer.
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Tufanova, Olga A. "Plots about an Elephant in the Notes on Muscovy by Heinrich von Staden and in Old Russian Literature of the 12th–16th Centuries." Studia Litterarum 7, no. 4 (2022): 126–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-4-126-141.
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The article examines the literary originality of story about an unusual gift of Iranian Shah to the Russian Tsar in the Notes on Muscovy by Heinrich von Staden, analyzes the features of using the estrangement technique when assessing the actions of Russian people in relation to an elephant and Arab caring for him, specifics of perception and image of guardsmen. By refusing to use figurative and expressive means and presenting only facts, Staden involuntarily creates in the reader a special perception of Russian guardsmen as cynical people, for whom the violation of moral norms and the cult of ruthless arbitrariness is a way of life. The story of an elephant, inscribed in the general story of oprichnina, demonstrates Staden’s dismissive attitude towards Ivan the Terrible and his subjects as cruel, immoral barbarians, unable to value diplomatic gifts of status, to take care of a living being properly, or to be guided by elementary logic in assessing events. Overview of the Old Russian sources that mention elephants showed that the development of plots goes along four lines: the first is the description of an animal and symbolic interpretation, the second is the mention of elephants as an exotic of Eastern countries, the third is the use of elephants to demonstrate the wealth of a particular person and/or as an intimidation of the enemy in battle, the fourth — the features of capturing elephants. Against this background, the Notes on Muscovy by Heinrich von Staden with a detailed plot about an elephant presented to Ivan the Terrible, look very exotic for Old Russian literature. A fact doubtful from the point of view of historical authenticity, a strange murder of an animal, an insulting description of Russians as cruel barbarians — all this, most likely, was the reason for the absence of this plot in the original literature, contemporary with the writing of the Notes on Muscovy, however, as well as in Russian seventeenth century literature.
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Castromán Soto, Margarita M. "The Unhurried Hermeneutics of Anti-Black Violence in Toni Morrison’s Paradise." MELUS 46, no. 4 (November 22, 2021): 75–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlab042.
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Abstract The opening lines of Toni Morrison’s Paradise (1997) are undeniably some of her most famous: “They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time. No need to hurry out there… . there is time and the day has just begun” (3). While the novel eventually reveals the identity of those who constitute the “they” of the opening action, in a move that has received much critical attention, it famously leaves the first victim anonymous. This essay, however, draws our attention to “the rest.” What of the infamous black women of Paradise for whom the violence is slow and drawn out or the many more in our country whose names we say to rebuke a system of injustice that continues to insist that there is “no need to hurry” for “there is time and the day has just begun”? Privileging a reading of time over space, the essay puts Morrison’s Paradise in conversation with Rob Nixon’s Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2011) and Moya Bailey’s Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (2021) in order to address the urgent need for a temporal reframing of anti-Black violence. Paying particular care to what Karla Holloway describes as the “comparative laxity” to which Black women in this country have historically been subjected and the extent to which that comparative laxity persists in the face of spectacular scenes of violence, the essay concludes with an examination of Breonna Taylor’s murder in 2020. It considers how the events that resulted in her death, like the fictional raid that frames Morrison’s novel, are byproducts of white supremacist systems of slow violence and misogynoir designed to wear down the opposition by attrition.
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Hunt, Aeron. "CALCULATIONS AND CONCEALMENTS: INFANTICIDE IN MID–NINETEENTH CENTURY BRITAIN." Victorian Literature and Culture 34, no. 1 (March 2006): 71–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150306051059.
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ON 23 DECEMBER 1858, theTimesreported the proceedings of the trial in Reading of Mary Newell, a servant, for the willful murder of her three-month-old child, whose body had been discovered in the Thames by boys who had gone fishing. Since Newell herself had admitted the crime in a statement to the constables who came to her mother's house to arrest her, the focus of the trial was not so much on establishing the guilt or innocence of the prisoner as it was on determining what could have motivated such an extreme and seemingly unnatural act of violence in order to decide the severity of her punishment. According to the testimony of a fellow inmate in the workhouse where she lived, Newell had been “a kind and affectionate mother” to the infant and had “suckled it to the last”; the prisoner's defense counsel, seeking to reconcile this description with the seriousness of her crime, invited the medical witness to affirm that she might have been “seized by a destructive impulse” that made her “destroy [that] to which [she] was most fondly attached.” While Newell's defense hoped to establish mental instability as the likeliest conceivable explanation for her act, the prisoner's confession to the constables, describing her hopelessness on being turned away by the child's father, pointed to another motivation, that of economic desperation: “I went to the father of it, and he refused to give me anything, and I told him I would swear the baby, or have a summons for him. He said I might do so. He put on his coat and left me in the shop…. I stood there till his sister put up the shutters. She said it was no use to stop any longer, he would not be home till 11 or 12. I walked the town till 12, being destitute of a farthing. I walked down the Forbury to the King's Meadow. I undressed the baby and laid it by the side on the bank, and let the baby roll in. Afterwards I walked up and down to see if I could see him come indoors. After that I went and got over into a field, and sat under a hedge–it was in a turnip field–till morning…. I saw him at Christmas and he said he would pay for the child.” (“Criminal Courts” 23 Dec. 1858)
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Bankauskaitė, Gabija, and Loreta Huber. "Trauma, Narrative and History: Representation of Traumatic Experience in the Works of Algirdas Landsbergis." Interlitteraria 26, no. 1 (August 31, 2021): 309–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/il.2021.26.1.21.
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The twentieth century witnessed an abundant number of traumatic events related to dark history. Trauma caused by war, occupation, exile, repression, gave rise to migration or mass murder. To rely upon Cathy Caruth (1996: 3), the concept of trauma is understood as a physical wound; however, subsequently in medicine and the literature of psychiatry, especially in Freud’s works, the concept of trauma came to be understood as a psychological wound. In addition, trauma is not only a disturbing or stressful experience that affects an individual physically or psychologically, it may also be based on other factors created by society.
Over time the field of trauma in various contexts expanded so that today it is widely used in sociology when analysing historical and cultural events. Cultural traumatic memory is mirrored in trauma fiction that conveys the experience of loss and suffering, there is a space for memories, introspection, recollections, flashbacks and awful remembrances that are colored by pain. Apart from individual, event-based trauma, there is another category of trauma variously called cultural or historical trauma, which affects groups of people.
Numerous studies have been conducted on the latter topic, however, trauma and its expression in Lithuanian literature has not yet been sufficiently documented.
The aim of this study is to discuss the concepts of cultural and historical trauma and the way trauma is reflected in Algirdas Jeronimas Landsbergis’ works. The authors of the study claim that Landsbergis – one of many Lithuanian writers-in-exile – wrote texts that fill a cultural vacuum and invite a re-discussion of what was most painful in the past.
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Parsons, Katelin. "Til þess eru ill dæmi að varast þau: Um Bjarna í Efranesi í Skarðsárannál." Gripla 32 (2021): 227–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.33112/gripla.32.9.
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The post-medieval revival of the annalistic format in Iceland in the early seventeenth century involved a deliberate and very successful decision to align contemporary history-writing with a long and venerable past tradition. Although the post-medieval annals were not structured around an Easter table like their medieval counterparts, they did not record secular history in a modern sense. Temporal time and space existed within an infinitely vaster eternity, and the true goal of earthly life was accepted to be salvation of the soul. Death was represented in meditative literature of the seventeenth century as a life-long journey rather than a single isolated event, during which journey divine punishments might be deservedly meted out to individuals and communities as corrective action for those who strayed from the straight and narrow path. In this context, annals were a means of situating the past, present and future within a single narrative space. Early modern Icelandic annals such as Skarðsárannáll, compiled by Björn Jónsson of Skarðsá (1574–1655), have been approached as a source of well-structured data on very diverse topics, but far fewer studies have examined their internal narrative structure across and within individual entries. The present article focuses on an entry for the year 1553 in Skarðsárannáll that provides a cautionary tale on discipline and justice for early modern audiences. The entry describes the misfortunes of Bjarni of Efranes in Skagaströnd, who killed his first wife for killing their older son for killing their younger son. What has to date been received as a gory historical account of a chain of deaths set in motion by a mother’s inappropriate threat to castrate her misbehaving young sons is actually a hitherto unknown Icelandic variant of a well-known tale type, AT 2401/ATU 1343* (“The Children Play at Hog-Killing”). Very close parallels can be found in contemporary folklore collected in the twentieth century (Brunvand 03250, “The Mother’s Threat Carried Out”), and the narrative in Skarðsárannáll supports the circulation of older versions of ATU 1343* involving a castration threat. Comparison with a letter written by Bishop Guðbrandur Þorláksson of Hólar suggests that the character of Bjarni of Efranes in Skarðsárannáll is partly based on a farmer in Skagaströnd whose son died suddenly while fishing with a neighbour and his three grown sons. The incident was not investigated as a possible murder case until many years later, but one of the sons was arrested in c. 1611. The bishop’s letter indicates concern that fair judicial procedure had not been followed in detaining the man, who was later released. There was no evidence that murder had taken place, and the accused swore that the young man had died of natural causes. The case was never prosecuted, but it was an unsatisfactory conclusion for all parties involved, and Skarðsárannáll demonstrates that the suspects were widely believed to be guilty within their local community. According to Skarðsárannáll, the neighbour and all three of his sons met a miserable end as starving vagrants in a famine soon thereafter. The narrative implies that death by famine is their punishment for the crime they attempted to conceal. Through the connection of this event to ATU 1343*, the narrative also suggests the guilt of the victim’s family as an explanation for the apparent failure of justice in the case: the victim is the third son of Bjarni of Efranes. Bjarni supposedly walked three times barefoot around Iceland as a penance for the sin of killing his first wife before settling at Efranes, but even this deed was inadequate justice for slaying his spouse, and his temporal life was one of a condemned man. Although he remarried and attempted to start a new life, murder carried the penalty of death, and penance was inadequate to atone for such an act in post-Reformation Iceland. Just as in other versions of ATU 1343* circulating in early modern Europe, Bjarni of Efranes died of grief. As this is a Lutheran exemplum, no saints could materialise to bring him comfort: the practice of life-long repentance was his only hope of salvation.
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Shah, Adarsh, and Edmund Leung. "The intravenous use of commercial disinfectants in the treatment of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19): Unconventional, but is there evidence against it?" Asian Journal of Medical Sciences 11, no. 4 (July 1, 2020): 84–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ajms.v11i4.28941.
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Background: On 24th April 2020, United States President Donald J. Trump suggested the use of commercial surface disinfectants to treat patients infected with COVID-19. In his speech, President Trump also proposed medical research be conducted. However, there are controversies regarding the toxicity of the disinfectant’s main ingredients sodium hypochlorite.
Aims and Objective: The purpose of this international collaborative study is to assess on feasibility and safety of disinfectants in human use.
Materials and Methods: Several safety labels of common commercialised brands of surface disinfectant from United Kingdom and New Zealand. Furthermore, literature search was conducted through Pubmed on keywords keywords “sodium hypochlorite” AND “poisoning” AND “intravenous drug user”.
Result: All safety labels advised hazardous warning regarding irritation and caustic burns if ingested. They all suggest water to wash out the effect if exposed to any mucus membrane such as eyes and broken skin. No safety information was given by any of the brands against subcutaneous or intravenous injection. No death in human was reported resulting from oral ingestion. There were 2 case reports: one of blindness and one of fibrosing alveolitis resulting from ingestion during a domestic dispute. Intravenous injection has only been seen in attempted murder cases or by intravenous drug users. All the reported cases have resulted in 2 deaths, organ failures and venous thrombosis including pulmonary embolism.
Conclusion: There is no safety warning from the manufacturers of the studied surface disinfectants regarding intravenous use. Intravenous injections in the literature suggests significant toxic outcome including death. Randomised controlled trials on animals may be required to assess the risk of intravenous injection of surface disinfectants against the risk of death from COVID-19 infection.
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Cameron, Paul, William L. Playfair, and Stephen Wellum. "The Longevity of Homosexuals: Before and after the Aids Epidemic." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 29, no. 3 (November 1994): 249–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/g94q-xmfy-3g33-0xre.
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Although the U.S. Surgeon General characterized homosexual sex as “normal” and “healthy,” homosexuals and IV drug abusers have suffered disproportionately from the AIDS epidemic. Longevity is often utilized as a measure of health. How long did homosexuals live before the AIDS epidemic and how long do they live today? We examined 6,737 obituaries/death notices from eighteen U.S. homosexual journals over the past thirteen years and compared them to obituaries from two conventional newspapers. The obituaries from the non-homosexual newspapers were similar to U.S. averages for longevity: the median age of death of married men was seventy-five, 80 percent died old (65 or older); for unmarried men it was fifty-seven, 32 percent died old; for married women it was seventy-nine, 85 percent died old; for unmarried women it was seventy-one, 60 percent died old. For the 6,574 homosexual deaths, the median age of death if AIDS was the cause was thirty-nine irrespective of whether or not the individual had a Long Time Sexual Partner [LTSP], 1 percent died old. For those 829 who died of non-AIDS causes the median age of death was forty-two (41 for those 315 with a LTSP and 43 for those 514 without) and <9 percent died old. Homosexuals more frequently met a violent end from accidental death, traffic death, suicide, and murder than men in general. The 163 lesbians registered a median age of death of forty-four (20% died old) and exhibited high rates of violent death and cancer as compared to women in general. Old homosexuals appear to have been proportionately less numerous than their non-homosexual counterparts in the scientific literature from 1858 to 1993. The pattern of early death evident in the homosexual obituaries is consistent with the pattern exhibited in the published surveys of homosexuals and intravenous drug abusers. Homosexuals may have experienced a short lifespan for the last 140 years; AIDS has apparently reduced it about 10 percent. Such an abbreviated lifespan puts the healthfulness of homosexuality in question.
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Riley, John. "Explaining Murder in Maine: Three Case Studies." Deviant Behavior 39, no. 6 (August 31, 2017): 776–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2017.1335510.
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Ismail, Ibrahim. "Analysis of Batam District Court Decision Number: 35 / Pid.B / 2012 compared to the Supreme Court Decision Number: 1691 / K / Pid / 2012." Melayunesia Law 4, no. 1 (June 30, 2020): 91. http://dx.doi.org/10.30652/ml.v4i1.7756.
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This study aims to analyze the interpretation of judges through the decision of the Batam District Court Number: 35/Pid.B/2012/PN.BTM which has been reconstructed through the Supreme Court Decision Number: 1691K/Pid/2012 in the murder case on behalf of Defendant MindoTampubolon, S.Ik. This research is a normative legal research, because it is based on library research that takes excerpts from reading books, literature, or supporting books that have relation to the problem to be studied, assisted with primary, secondary and tertiary data sources. This study uses qualitative data analysis and produces descriptive data.The results showed that the Judicial Consideration of the Panel of Judges in Batam District Court Decree Number 35/Pid.B/2012/PN.BTM was the indictment of the Public Prosecutor who stated that the defendant MindoTampubolon, S.Ik did, who ordered and did and participated in the act, intentionally and with prior plans to take the lives of others in their proof related to the elements in Articles 338 and 340 Jo. Article 55 paragraph (1) 1 of the Criminal Code. While the non-juridical consideration of the Panel of Judges in Batam District Court Decree Number 35/Pid.B/2012/PN.BTM is that the evidence of the involvement of the accused is only based on the statement of TumpalManik, SH, and always states that the perpetrators of the killings are witnesses GugunGunawan alias Ujang bin Ade. Decision of the Supreme Court Number 1691K/Pid/2012 is in accordance with the sense of justice in accordance with the purpose of criminalization and realized in the form of the application of the principle of Equality Before the Law, the principle of Presumption of Innocence and imprisonment of the defendant MindoTampubolon, S. Ik for a lifetime.
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ROLLS, ALISTAIR. "Primates in Paris and Edgar Allan Poe’s Paradoxical Commitment to Foreign Languages." Australian Journal of French Studies 58, no. 1 (April 1, 2021): 76–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/ajfs.2021.07.
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Drawing on recent innovations in detective criticism in France, this article broadens the quest to exonerate Poe’s famous orang-utan and argues that the Urtext of modern Anglo-American crime fiction is simultaneously a rejection of linguistic dominance (of English in this case) and an apologia for modern languages. This promotion of linguistic diversity goes hand in hand with the wilful non-self-coincidence of Poe’s detection narrative, which recalls, and pre-empts, the who’s-strangling-whom? paradox of deconstructionist criticism. Although “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” is prescient, founding modern crime fiction for future generations, it is entwined with a nineteenth-century tradition of sculpture that not only poses men fighting with animals but also inverts classical scenarios, thereby questioning the binary of savagery versus civilization and investing animals with the strength to kill humans while also positing them as the victims of human violence.
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Sarteschi, Christine M. "Murder me not." Critical Quarterly 62, no. 1 (April 2020): 49–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/criq.12535.
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Beasley, James O. "Serial murder in America: case studies of seven offenders." Behavioral Sciences & the Law 22, no. 3 (May 2004): 395–414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bsl.595.
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Seltzer, Mark. "Murder/Media/Modernity." Canadian Review of American Studies 38, no. 1 (January 2008): 11–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cras.38.1.11.
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Drake, Richard. "The Aldo Moro Murder Case in Retrospect." Journal of Cold War Studies 8, no. 2 (January 2006): 114–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jcws.2006.8.2.114.
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On 16 March 1978, the Marxist-Leninist Red Brigades kidnapped Aldo Moro, Italy's paramount political figure of the time. The Italian government steadfastly refused to negotiate with the Red Brigades for Moro's life, and on 9 May the terrorists executed him. Conspiracy theories based on the logic of Cold War politics and involving accusations against subversive elements in the Italian government and the secret services of foreign governments, particularly the United States and Israel, quickly surfaced. These theories gained wide currency among the Italian public despite overwhelming evidence that the Red Brigades bore exclusive responsibility for the crime. This article surveys some of the recent literature on what is still an extremely controversial subject in Italy.