Abstract Drug overdose claimed more than 100,000 lives in the United States in 2021. Drug‐induced homicide (DIH) laws create specific criminal liability for individuals who provide drugs that cause or contribute to the death of another person. DIH prosecutions in the United States have increased substantially over the past decade despite the absence of
Jennifer J. Carroll +8 more
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Abstract Rich in raw materials, the state of Guerrero, Mexico, is one of the main enclaves of opium production, mineral extraction, and a focus for the multiplication of armed actors in Latin America, which, together with the overlapping of counterinsurgent violence in the past, post‐colonial violence and the militarization of the policies of the so ...
Inés Giménez Delgado
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Psychopathic femicide: The influence of psychopathy on intimate partner homicide
Abstract High scores in psychopathy were associated with acts of violence, and the prevalence of this condition is greater among the prison population than among the general population. In terms of its relation to femicide, two studies, one carried out in Sweden and another in Spain with a prison population, found that psychopathy is an uncommon ...
Jorge Santos‐Hermoso +4 more
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Shooting down the price: Evidence from Mafia homicides and housing prices
Abstract In this paper, we estimate the effect of the homicides by the Camorra, the Neapolitan Mafia, on housing prices in Naples. The study develops on a unique panel data set at the administrative district level for the period 2002–2018 of geo‐localized homicides involving innocent victims (denoted as IVH), which are treated as exogenous shocks that ...
Michele Battisti +3 more
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ABSTRACT Police work is obviously a question of pursuing subjects. In postslave societies, one figure dominates; police are always after the young Black man. Meanwhile, another distinctive subject of policing exists. In São Paulo, Brazil, police detectives are also worried about the failing White father.
GRAHAM DENYER WILLIS
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A visual testament by Luca Riva, a deaf and mute pupil of the Procaccini
Abstract The paper investigates the visual testament by Luca Riva, a mute and deaf artist who studied in Milan under Camillo Procaccini. Dated 9 September 1624, the document consists of twelve folios bound together in a small volume. On the sheets, ten brown‐ink drawings illustrate the beneficiaries of Riva’s testament, identifying the inheritance ...
Angelo Lo Conte
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Mercado das Drogas Ilícitas e Homicídios no Brasil: Um Estudo Comparativo das Cidades de Belo Horizonte (MG) e Maceió (AL) [PDF]
RESUMO Esse artigo analisa o impacto do mercado das drogas ilícitas na incidência de homicídios em Belo Horizonte (BH) e Maceió (AL). Foram consultados os relatórios finais dos inquéritos policiais de homicídios com autoria identificada nas respectivas ...
Luís Flávio Sapori
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Assassinato múltiplo: o que sabemos?
Introdução: Um evento homicida com a presença de várias vítimas pode ser definido como um assassinato múltiplo, porém esse termo refere-se a uma categoria mais ampla que compreende as subclassificações: assassinato em massa, assassinato em série e ...
Saulo Maia Martins da Silva +4 more
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Pobreza, instituições e segurança: perspectivas de familiares de adolescentes assassinados no Ceará = Poverty, institutions and security: perspectives of adolescents’ families murdered in Ceará = Pobreza, instituciones y seguridad: perspectivas de familiares de adolescentes asesinados en el Ceará [PDF]
Objetivou-se, por meio de levantamento, analisar as implicações da pobreza na segurança e no acesso institucional de familiares de jovens assassinados no Ceará.
Barros, João Paulo Pereira
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Homicidio doloso en Costa Rica, 1993-2005: magnitud, tipología y tasas por país de origen del imputado [PDF]
Se calculó la tasa bruta de homicidio doloso (intencional) en la población total de Costa Rica y las tasas de las poblaciones de costarricenses y de nicaragüenses, residentes en el país.
Leonardo J. Mata +1 more
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