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Expressiveness and Instrumentality of Crime Scene Behavior in Spanish Homicides [PDF]
One of the current trends in the study of criminal profiling consists of developing theoretical and methodological typologies to offer information of operational use in police investigations.
Patró Hernández, Rosa María+3 more
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Background Homicide is a major cause of death and contributes to health disparities in the United States. This burden overwhelmingly affects people from racial and ethnic minority populations as homicide occurs more often in neighborhoods with high ...
Ariana N. Gobaud+4 more
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Specificity of homicide in tunisian women
Introduction Homicide is the most serious, radical and irreversible criminal act. It arouses a multitude of questions and fears. Committed by women, the homicide seems more unusual and weird.
R. Ouali+10 more
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Intimate Partner Homicide of Adolescents.
Importance Intimate partner violence during adolescence is widespread, and consequences can be severe. Intimate partner homicide (IPH) is the most extreme form of intimate partner violence, but literature on IPH has almost exclusively focused on adults.
Avanti Adhia+4 more
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The rule of the most important and the important in duress to Homicide [PDF]
Duress is one of the factors that, according to the Hadith of Raf and other reasons, eliminate duty and responsibility from committing a crime but well-known Imams' jurists accepted duress in homicide and are believed that in the case of committing, the ...
Reza Elhami, Hasan Pourlotfolah
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Distance to the scaling law: a useful approach for unveiling relationships between crime and urban metrics [PDF]
We report on a quantitative analysis of relationships between the number of homicides, population size and other ten urban metrics. By using data from Brazilian cities, we show that well defined average scaling laws with the population size emerge when investigating the relations between population and number of homicides as well as population and ...
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Spatial correlations, clustering and percolation-like transitions in homicide crimes [PDF]
The spatial dynamics of criminal activities has been recently studied through statistical physics methods; however, models and results have been focused on local scales (city level) and much less is known about these patterns at larger scales such as at a country level. Here we report on a characterization of the spatial dynamics of the homicide crimes
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Exploring the Drugs-Homicide Connection [PDF]
Although research generally assumes a close relationship between drugs and violence, very little is known about the many different roles drugs can play in criminal events.
Bynum, Timothy S.+3 more
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In this paper we have reviewed the literature regarding homicidal drowning. Homicide of a child by drowning occurs occasionally, but it is much rarer that an adult is murdered in this way. When the victim is a child, there will often be few or no signs of violence due to the difference in size between the assailant and the victim, unlike the evidence ...
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Equal Tax for Equal Alcohol? Beverage Types and Antisocial and Unlawful Behaviours*
Alcohol taxation is an important policy instrument for correcting for market failures associated with excessive alcohol consumption. This paper examines the beverage‐specific negative externalities by providing empirical evidence linking ten alcoholic beverage types to drink‐driving and hazardous, disturbing or abusive behaviours when intoxicated ...
Preety Srivastava, Ou Yang, Xueyan Zhao
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