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Rural Crime and Community Safety [PDF]

, 2016
Crime is often perceived as an urban issue rather than a problem that occurs in rural areas, but how far is this view tenable? This book explores the relationship between crime and community in rural areas and addresses the notion of safety as part of ...
Ceccato, Vania A
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Evil narrated. Reflections on the work of Luigi Bernardi

Finzioni
Although he represents an essential figure for a full understanding of the phenomenon of so-called Italian noir, which has developed since the first decade of the 2000s, Luigi Bernardi remains a profile to which academic criticism has not paid due ...
Marco Amici
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Violent and property crime trends: local and international comparisons [PDF]

, 2015
Overview Aim: To compare crime trends in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the USA, England and Wales, and Scandinavia. Method: Trend data were extracted from publications and online data repositories.
Paul Nelson
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Crime scene examiners and volume crime investigations: an empirical study of perception and practice [PDF]

, 2012
Most police forces in the UK employ specially trained crime scene examiners (CSEs) to provide forensic science support to the investigation of crime. Previous research has shown wide variations in the management, deployment, and performance of this staff
Fraser, Jim, Williams, Robin, Ludwig, Anika   +2 more
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About the names and surnames of characters created by Agatha Christie

Studia Humanitatis
This paper examines the crime works by Agatha Christie, mainly about Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, from the point of view of anthroponymy. Anthroponyms can be considered as an element of a kind of “game” between the author and the reader as a kind of ...
Bogatyrev Arseniy Vladimirovich
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“I Stand Out Like a Raven”: Depicting the Female Detective and Tudor History in Nancy Bilyeau’s The Crown

American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2017
This article examines the portrayal of female identity and crime in the Tudor period in Nancy Bilyeau’s contemporary historical crime fiction novel, The Crown (2012). Featuring a female detective figure, Joanna Stafford, Bilyeau’s novel forms part of the
Beyer Charlotte
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A Model for Managing Crime Scene Examiners [PDF]

, 2014
Police forces in the UK employ specially trained Crime Scene Examiners (CSEs) to provide forensic science support to the investigation of crime. Previous research (Bradbury and Feist 2005; Williams 2004) has shown wide variations in the management ...
Ludwig, Anika
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Romanul judiciar. Către un nou subgen al romanului istoric românesc / The judicial novel: Toward a new subgenre of the Romanian historical novel

Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies
The lifespan and popularity of a subgenre are determined by the inventiveness with which novelists develop and innovate the standard formulas. The judicial novel emerges as an extension of the popularity of the outlaw novel, adding a technical dimension ...
Alexandra Olteanu
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Graeme Macrae Burnet’s His Bloody Project (2015): A Slippery Neo-Historical Novel

Études Britanniques Contemporaines
Graeme Macrae Burnet’s His Bloody Project is deliberately baffling for the first-time reader, playfully blending as it does reality and fiction. Subtitled ‘Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae’, a seventeen-year-old Highlands crofter who, in 
Isabelle Roblin
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The Smell of Crime. Towards an Olfactology of the Italian Crime Novel

Revue Odore
This study analyzes the evolution of olfactory stereotypes in Italian crime fiction through the works of three emblematic authors: Augusto De Angelis, Giorgio Scerbanenco and Donato Carrisi. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that integrates narrative semiotics, linguistic analysis, and embodied cognition theories, the research examines how smell ...
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