it is stipulated in our islamic jurisprudence and law that when a person is killed and he or she has several legal guardians, if some of the guardians pardon, the remaining guardians have the right to retaliate in qiṣāṣ provided that they pay the share of the blood money to those demanding blood money. it is pronounced in the article 264 of islamic penal code that: “if there are several legal g...

THERE is probably no subject upon which such diversity of opinion exists as the personality of the murderer. Not even within professional circles is there any great measure of agreement, and certainly the world in general has of late had much cause to reflect. In the first place most of us have unhesitatingly concluded that the recent years of war and violence must account indirectly for manv a...

A great deal of emotion, prejudice and rage faces the man who kills a child. Dr. Arthur Hyatt Williams, consultant psychiatrist at the Tavistock Clinic and Oakwood Hospital, is a psychotherapist at Wormwood Scrubs prison. Here, he analyses the public reaction and the motives of the offender. News of the murder of a child evokes a general reaction of horror and anger from the public. The flare-u...

We have developed an exercise designed to give students practice calculating arterial O2 content, O2 delivery, physiological dead space, dead space and alveolar ventilation, and alveolar partial pressure of O2 and CO2. The exercise is in the form of a "murder mystery" in which students are required to make these calculations to identify the murderer.

This discussion explores innovation in true crime programming on streaming platforms and on-demand catch up broadcast television services. Altered consumption habits from long form binge viewing services has prompted innovations factual content through docuseries. Commencing with Reality Television police procedurals such as the running US series Cops ([1989–2023]. Cops. TV Series. Fox. 1989–20...

The author believe.s that the killing of a newborn hab’ is a separate entitt’ Iron? other filicides, differing in regard to the diagnosis. mall yes, and legal dispo.sitioiz ott/ic murderer. Wherea.s most fthcide.s are conzmitted for ‘altruistic’’ reasons. m?io.sl izeonaticides are carried out .swzplv because the child is not wanted. The author notes the different psychological charact eri.ctic....

In January 2005, a Wisconsin mother of six children who experienced condom failure after intercourse obtained a prescription for emergency contraception1 and traveled to a Milwaukee Walgreens to fill the prescription.2 Instead of honoring the physician’s medical instructions, however, pharmacist Michelle Long refused to fill the prescription and “publicly berated” the customer, telling her, “Yo...

Joseph Fredericks--one of Canada's most notorious sex offenders--was defined through the institutions that dealt with him from his infancy to his death to the inquest held after his death. In this paper, we locate in historical context and compare the different narratives that were constructed of his life in each of these institutional settings from unwanted child to 'mental defective' to psych...