this study is an attempt at examining staged photography series “by an eye witness” by azadeh akhlaghi. in these photos, historical events were reconstructed by staged photography and a reflection of the photographer's attitude towards the moments of death, murder, and burial of the people who made turning points in the contemporary history of iran could be observed. in this series two typ...

Most people are caring and will exert great effort to rescue individual victims whose needy plight comes to their attention. These same good people, however, often become numbly indifferent to the plight of individuals who are “one of many” in a much greater problem. Why does this occur? The answer to this question will help us answer a related question that is the topic of this paper: Why, ove...

“Have you tried getting out more?” the health visitor asked. I explained again that stairs had been impossible since my emergency caesarean section a month ago. “I manage, and I have osteoarthritis,” she replied. “You really should try.” It felt like a slap. The lack of empathy for my physical pain meant I felt unable to share my more serious worries, such as my suspicion that my baby daughter ...

The research aims to make the definition of criminal offense “murder” according several different authors, Criminal Code Republic Kosovo, and description most used methods murder, motives that affect commission a crime, victimization. Each person may commit crime is foreseen in for each are circumstances on basis which penalties prescribed by country determined. widespread form criminality has ...

Killers of members of their own families have long fueled the archetypical imagination. Our myths, literature, and popular arts are full of such characters as Cain, Oedipus, Medea, Othello, Hamlet, and Bluebeard. In our time the murderous children of movies like "The Bad Seed" and "The Omen"; the homicidal father of "The Shining"; the killer spouses of Hitchcock's "Midnight Lace" and "The Postm...

Serial sexual murderers have been described as committing homicides in a methodical manner, taking substantial time between offenses to elude the authorities. The results of our study of the temporal patterns (i.e., the length of time between homicides) of a nonrandom national sample of 44 serial sexual murderers and their 201 victims indicate that this representation may not always be accurate...

Close examination of the available crime data reveals little scientific support for the widely held belief that serial homicide is frequent and increasing. The author argues that the dramatic changes in homicide clearance rates, incidence of murders with unknown motives, and victim gender data point to a likely increase, not in serial murder, but in contract murder. This type of killing appears...

1. The house of a suspect in a murder inquiry is searched. In a locked room, and a locked chest within that room, a bloodied knife is found that has the DNA of a murder victim on its blade. The room and the chest were securely locked, the owner of the house being the only one with a key that he never left out of his sight. There is no sign that either lock was tampered with, or that anyone othe...

though, in intentional murder, blood-money which should be received depends upon agreement between him and heirs of the murdered person (in other words, it is reconciliatory), according to abi basir’s hadith, if a murderer escapes and cannot be found, blood-money should be taken from his properties and, if this is not possible, in the next stage from his relatives, and finally from public treas...

In the early morning of March 25, 2006, 28-year-old Kyle Huff shot eight young men and women, six of them fatally, at a rave after-party on East Republican Street in the Capitol Hill section of Seattle. The gunman, a transplant fromMontana, then committed suicide just as the police arrived on the scene. Because of the perpetrator’s suicide, there was no need for a detailed investigation leading...