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Epilepsy and homicide

open access: yesNeuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 2013
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 ...
Pandya, Naushira   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Homicide, punishment and deterrence in Australia

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Australian data encompassing 1910–2022, by year and state, were analyzed to estimate the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates. Our estimates showed that capital punishment had a negative and significant effect on homicides. In some specifications, the estimates implied that an execution was associated with 12.68 fewer homicides ...
Hugh Farrell, Vincent O'Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

Clustering of homicide with other adverse health outcomes in the Netherlands

open access: yesPreventive Medicine Reports, 2022
In this project we examine whether homicide ‘clusters together’ with other adverse health outcomes in the Netherlands, focusing on child mortality, suicide, sexual risk behavior, and substance abuse.
J.A. van Breen, M.C.A. Liem
doaj  

Murder by Numbers: Socio-Economic Determinants of Homicide and Civil War [PDF]

open access: yes
Deliberate killing is a common part of the defining features of both homicide and civil war. Often, the scale of killing is also similar: most countries have homicide rates that exceed the threshold of one thousand combat-related deaths during a year ...
Anke Hoeffler, Paul Collier
core  

Homicide Profiles Based on Crime Scene and Victim Characteristics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
One of the current trends in homicide research includes developing works based on scientific study and empirical evidence, which offer conclusions that can be used in an operational manner during police investigations.
Patró Hernández, Rosa María   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Child homicide perpetrators worldwide: a systematic review

open access: yesBMJ Paediatrics Open, 2017
Objective This study aims to describe child homicide perpetrators and estimate their global and regional proportion to inform prevention strategies to reduce child homicide mortality worldwide.
H. Stöckl   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Housing and Homicide [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
In the 1990s, homicide and violent crime dropped dramatically in New York City but not in Chicago. No single factor can fully explain the reasons for Chicago's persistently high rates of violence.
John M. Hagedorn
core  

Practical Homicide Investigation Tactics, Procedures, and Forensic Techniques

open access: yes, 2015
CONTENTS: The Homicide Crime Scene. First Officer's Duties. First Officer's Duties: Specific. Preliminary Investigation at the Scene: The Detectives. Specific Investigative Duties. The Crime Scene Photographs. The Crime Scene Sketch.
V. Geberth
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Corporate Criminal Liability for Homicide: A Statutory Framework [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Since the nineteenth century, judges, legislators, prosecutors, and academics have grappled with how best to accommodate within the criminal law corporations whose conduct causes the death of others.
Harlow, James W.
core   +1 more source

The Epistemic Challenge to Democratic Resilience: A Late‐Classical Athenian Institutional Solution

open access: yesConstellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Democratic erosion is an increasingly worrying phenomenon, affecting not only both young and transitional democracies but also more consolidated ones. A particularly important aspect of this process (in its contemporary incarnation) is that, because of its subtle and incrementalist character, it is difficult to perceive by citizens, who often ...
Alexandru Volacu
wiley   +1 more source

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