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Patient Safety and Organisational Accountability: Reassessing Criminal Liability Frameworks in Healthcare

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Serious harm in healthcare often results from systemic failures, yet criminal accountability remains largely addressed through homicide law, gross negligence manslaughter and health‐and‐safety offences, frameworks that emphasise individual culpability and are ill‐suited to addressing organisational failings.
Sarah Bennett, Amel Alghrani
wiley   +1 more source

What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores the possibility of justice for the wretched of the earth. Using escrevivência (writing the experience/existence) and drawing on the theoretical insights and political praxis of the Assessoria Popular Maria Felipa (APMF, Maria Felipa Advocacy Group)—a Brazilian abolitionist organization led by Black activists—we analyze how ...
Fernanda Oliveira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Homicide by drowning [PDF]

open access: yesForensic Science, Medicine and Pathology, 2019
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 ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
wiley   +1 more source

Natural Geography, Socioeconomic Inequalities, Institutions, and How They Affect Global Homicide Rates

open access: yesKriminologie - Das Online-Journal
Homicide, which represents the most extreme form of violence, significantly devalues human life. This paper examines the impact of natural geography − a factor often underestimated − alongside socioeconomic disparities and institutional performance on ...
Evangelos Rasvanis
doaj   +1 more source

Applying humanitarian principles within forensic medico‐legal investigations to better support families impacted by the MMIWG2+ crisis

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite growing public awareness and political attention, the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two‐Spirit People (MMIWG2+) in Canada and the United States remains unresolved. Indigenous families continue to report that the disappearances and deaths of their loved ones are investigated inadequately and without ...
Steff King   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indirect fractures in long bones resulting from gunshot trauma: Occurrence, characterization, and need for additional research

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Indirect fractures from gunshot wounds can occur when a projectile impacts soft tissue without making direct contact with the bone. Existing biomechanical and clinical research suggests that indirect fractures result in lower levels of comminution, and that resultant fracture patterns can resemble those seen in blunt force trauma (e.g., wedge ...
Alexandra Semma Tamayo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Age, Poverty, Homicide, and Gun Homicide

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2015
Traditional theories of “adolescent risk taking” have not been validated against recent research indicating that youthful traffic crash, violent crime, felony crime, and firearms mortality rates reflect young people’s low-socio-economic status (SES ...
Mike Males
doaj   +1 more source

Suicides disguised as homicides through weapon concealment: A two‐way copycat phenomenon between fiction and real world

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Suicides disguised as homicides present a persistent challenge in forensic case analysis, particularly when the weapon is deliberately removed after discharge. This study investigates the evolution of weapon concealment techniques—specifically the “load‐and‐rope” and “helium balloon‐tied gun” methods—across documented casework, forensic ...
Ernesto Damiani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neighborhood variation in unsolved homicides: a retrospective cohort study in Indianapolis, Indiana, 2007–2017

open access: yesInjury Epidemiology, 2020
Background Homicide is a widely acknowledged public health problem in the United States. The majority of homicides are committed with a firearm and have long-term health consequences for family members and entire communities. When left unsolved, violence
Lauren A. Magee   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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