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The grip of crime: Analyzing strangulation and asphyxiation typologies in homicide cases. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Forensic Sci
Abstract Strangulation‐related homicides represent a complex and under‐researched form of violent crime, characterized by distinct behavioral and situational elements. The aim of the research was to identify perpetrator typologies in strangulation homicides and to analyze their relationships with victim characteristics and crime scene factors.
Petreca VG   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Mating with dead conspecifics in an invasive ladybird is affected by male sexual fasting and time since the female’s death

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
High promiscuity and low mating partner choosiness in insects can sometimes result in a deviated mating behaviour such as mating with already dead individuals. In this study we investigated the occurrence of necrophilic behaviour in males of the invasive
Michal Řeřicha   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Performing necrophilia

open access: yesWhatever, 2020
The present study aims at analysing female necrophilia in relation to female dominance. In order to do so, the theory elaborated by Judith Butler in Gender Trouble on gender performativity and the studies by Harvey Sacks on Category-Bound Activities are ...
Anna Chiara Corradino
doaj   +1 more source

The correlation between sadomasochists' experience and their sadomasochistic behaviors and fantasies: A qualitative analysis of interviews. [PDF]

open access: yesPsych J
Abstract Lacking a comprehensive understanding of sadomasochism makes difficulties in judicial dispositions, clinical interventions, and mental health services. This study explores the correlation between sadomasochists' growth experience and their sadomasochistic behaviors and fantasies.
Liang W, Zhang Y.
europepmc   +2 more sources

The significance of unusual acts in sexual homicide

open access: yesJournal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, Volume 20, Issue 3, Page 181-195, October 2023., 2023
Abstract In addition to being an unusual form of crime, sexual homicide (SH) sometimes includes unusual crime scene behaviours, such as carving on the victim, evisceration (i.e., removal of internal organs), skinning the victim, cannibalism and vampirism.
Poppy Sun   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

5/ Writing and filming queer deaths

open access: yesWhatever, 2021
This is part 5 of 6 of the dossier What do we talk about when we talk about queer death?, edited by M. Petricola. The contributions collected in this article sit at the crossroads between thanatology, critical animal studies, and the posthumanities and ...
Joshua G. Adair   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Criminal mutilation in Sweden from 1991 to 2017

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Sciences, Volume 66, Issue 5, Page 1788-1796, September 2021., 2021
Abstract We identified 43 cases of mutilation homicides in a nationwide population‐based study in Sweden during the period of 1991–2017. 70% of cases were classified as defensive mutilations where the main motive was disposal of the body, while 30% were classified as offensive, that is, due to an expression of strong aggression, necro‐/sexual sadism ...
Denise Guggenheimer   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

PETALS: The Aestheticisation of Death in Sylvia Plath’s “Edge” and in the Illustrations of Adriaan van de Spiegel’s Frucht in Mutter Leibe

open access: yesAmerican, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2023
This article investigates the aestheticisation of death in Sylvia Plath’s poem “Edge” in relation to other poems by her and marginally by Seamus Heaney and Charles Baudelaire, and to the short story “The Oval Portrait” by Edgar Allan Poe.
Ciobanu Estella
doaj   +1 more source

Are Ashes All That Is Left? Grace Jantzen’s Aesthetics and the Beauty of Biodiversity

open access: yesReligions, 2022
As the climate crisis continues to worsen and it becomes apparent that the earth faces its sixth mass extinction event, it is more important than ever to find an alternative to the disordered thinking that prevents meaningful environmental reform in ...
Dorothy C. Dean
doaj   +1 more source

Bioethical aspects of criminal law regulation of necrophilia in the Republic of Croatia [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Advokatske komore Vojvodine, 2020
Necrophilia is one of the most taboo segments of the psychopathological, but also of the legal, categories, whereat issues of acts against the (deceased) human body and its desecration, but also the phenomena of life and death per se, are coming to the ...
Nedić Tomislav, Janeš Luka
doaj  

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