Suicide or ' self-murder ' is regarded by the law as murder, a murder committed by a person on himself or herself (felo-de-se or felony committed on one's self). The verdict usually given by the coroner and other competent authorities in such cases is ' Death is due to suicide, whilst temporarily insane'. This expression is regarded as a charitable addition to relieve the suicide and his family...

background : suicide is a global public health problem. deliberate self-poisoning (dsp) is one of the most common methods of suicide in many countries. this study was designed to identify the trends and characteristics of dsp in gorgan. methods: the study was carried out retrospectively in 5 azar hospital. it included 549 patients who were hospitalized in the hospital due to dsp from march 2008...

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...

Abstract This Article explores the similarities between principles which guide judiciary nowadays and those typical for functioning of Communist justice system, particularly susceptibility to obedience requests, orders, or meeting anticipations. The habitus judges authoritarian regime has persisted until these days was main reason judicial corruption revealed in “Threema scandal.” Article’s arg...

INTRODUCTION Like medicine, public health practitioners seek to understand causes of mortality, practices of humans and issues that can change population conditions, in order to preserve and care for life. The murder pandemic has been such in Jamaica that the World Bank sponsored a qualitative study on crime in urban areas in Jamaica in the late 1990s to provide a platform to guide policy inter...

PURPOSE We report the rare case of a patient with intractable epilepsy and escalating aggression, resulting in murder, who had complete resolution of her seizures and explosive behavior following a right temporal lobectomy. PATIENTS AND METHODS We searched the available literature from 1880 to 2013 for cases of epilepsy being used as a court defense for murder and collected information regard...

Although the importance of high motivation to engage in deliberate practice has been acknowledged, no research has directly tested this hypothesis. Therefore, the present study examined this relation in adolescent elite chess players by means of a questionnaire. In addition, to provide an explanation for dropout among promising chess players, differences in motivation between persistent and dro...

Murder rates for New Orleans, La, during 2005 and 2006 were calculated with the best available population trajectories for these 2 atypical years. These calculations showed that the murder rate increased substantially during this period compared with 2004. The increase in 2005 from 2004 was 14%. The best estimate of the increase in the murder rate in 2006 compared with 2004 was 69%; the large i...

Dynamic service settings—characterized by workers who interact with customers to deliver services in a rapidly changing, uncertain, and complex environment (e.g., hospitals)—play an important role in the economy. Organizational learning studies in these settings have largely investigated autonomous learning via cumulative experience as a strategy for performance improvement. Whether induced lea...