Abstract. The mere ownership effect is an increase in the subjective value of owned objects compared to identical but non-owned objects. We tested whether differs magnitude between material and immaterial (e.g., information). Three hundred participants played incentivized detective game which they had connect clues identify a murderer. Their task was evaluate usefulness or their partners were e...

This study dealt with the struggle of main character in Marlina Murderer Four Acts movie. The objectives were to find out oppressions that experienced, struggles against oppression, and how struggled oppression. used descriptive qualitative as method analyze data. researcher Young's (1990) theory data from movie's script. Marlina, character, suffered three kinds oppression; marginalization, pow...

According to the organized-disorganized model, organized sexual murderers adopt specific behaviors during the commission of their crimes that contribute to avoiding police detection. The current study examines the effect of sexual murderers' organized behaviors on their ability to both delay and/or avoid police detection. Using a combination of negative binomial and logistic regression analyses...

The fingernails of Mary Sullivan, the last victim of the Boston Strangler, were examined to determine if any genetic information about the murderer could be obtained. The nails were extremely friable necessitating the development of new techniques for isolating and purifying DNA. DNA yields from nails were optimized by using a NaOH-based preparation technique, which was simple, efficient, and m...

Professor Plum was murdered in his new SMC science building office! Unfortunately, the killer was clever enough to eliminate most physical evidence of how the crime was committed. Your boss, Inspector Clouseau of Santa Monica Homicide has called in your team of forensic chemists to examine a blood stain found on the carpet under Professor Plum's desk for possible clues. It is hoped that chemica...

Femicide is the intentional killing of a woman because she is female, and often occurs when there are pre-existing relations, intimate or otherwise, between the victim and the murderer. A retrospective epidemiological study was made of 34 female homicides recorded in a university departmental register of post-mortems, pertaining to a judicial district of about 700,000 inhabitants in north easte...