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Murder --- Robbery --- Theft --- Criminal homicide --- Killing (Murder) --- Homicide
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Murder --- Criminal homicide --- Killing (Murder) --- Homicide --- History. --- Kiszko, Stefan,
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Serial murderers --- Violence in children --- Juvenile homicide --- Juvenile murder --- Youth homicide --- Conduct disorders in children --- Homicide --- Child psychopathology --- Children and violence --- Psychology. --- Pomeroy, Jesse Harding,
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On October 26, 1961, after an evening of studying with friends on the campus of Transylvania University, nineteen-year-old student Betty Gail Brown got into her car around midnight--presumably headed for home. But she would never arrive. Three hours later, Brown was found dead in a driveway near the center of campus, strangled to death with her own brassiere. Kentuckians from across the state became engrossed in the proceedings as lead after lead went nowhere. Four years later, the police investigation completely stalled. In 1965, a drifter named Alex Arnold Jr. confessed to the killing while in jail on other charges in Oregon. Arnold was brought to Lexington, indicted for the murder of Betty Gail Brown, and put on trial, where he entered a plea of not guilty. Robert G. Lawson was a young attorney at a local firm when a senior member asked him to help defend Arnold, and he offers a meticulous record of the case in Who Killed Betty Gail Brown? During the trial, the courtroom was packed daily, but witnesses failed to produce any concrete evidence. Arnold was an alcoholic whose memory was unreliable, and his confused, inconsistent answers to questions about the night of the homicide did not add up. Since the trial, new leads have come and gone, but Betty Gail Brown's murder remains unsolved. A written transcript of the court proceedings does not exist; and thus Lawson, drawing upon police and court records, newspaper articles, personal files, and his own notes, provides an invaluable record of one of Kentucky's most famous cold cases.
Murder --- Brown, Betty Gail --- Murder victims --- Murderees --- Victims of murder --- Dead --- Victims of crimes --- Criminal homicide --- Killing (Murder) --- Homicide --- Death.
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Murder --- Trials (Murder) --- Case studies. --- Haysom, Derek, --- Haysom, Nancy, --- Murder trials --- Criminal homicide --- Killing (Murder) --- Homicide --- Benedict, Nancy,
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This invaluable collection explores the many faces of murder, and its cultural presences, across the Italian peninsula between 1350 and 1650. These shape the content in different ways: the faces of homicide range from the ordinary to the sensational, from the professional to the accidental, from the domestic to the public; while the cultural presence of homicide is revealed through new studies of sculpture, paintings, and popular literature. Dealing with a range of murders, and informed by the latest criminological research on homicide, it brings together new research by an international team of specialists on a broad range of themes: different kinds of killers (by gender, occupation, and situation); different kinds of victim (by ethnicity, gender, and status); and different kinds of evidence (legal, judicial, literary, and pictorial). It will be an indispensable resource for students of Renaissance Italy, late medieval/early modern crime and violence, and homicide studies.
History of civilization --- murders --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1300-1399 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Italy --- Murder --- Criminal homicide --- Killing (Murder) --- History --- Homicide --- Murder - Italy - History --- Italy - History - 1268-1492 --- Italy - History - 1492-1870 --- murders [deaths] --- History.
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In Making Manslaughter, Susanne Pohl-Zucker offers parallel studies that trace the legal settlement of homicide in the duchy of Württemberg and the imperial city of Zurich between 1376 and 1700. Killings committed by men during disputes were frequently resolved by extrajudicial agreements during the late Middle Ages. Around 1500, customary strategies of dispute settlement were integrated and modified within contexts of increasing legal centralization and, in Württemberg, negotiated with the growing influence of the ius commune. Legal practice was characterized by indeterminacy and openness: categories and procedures proved flexible, and judicial outcomes were produced by governmental policies aimed at the re-establishment of peace as well as by the strategies and goals of all disputants involved in a homicide case.
Manslaughter --- Reparation (Criminal justice) --- Criminal homicide --- Homicide --- Compensation for victims of crime --- Criminal restitution --- Reparation --- Restitution (Criminal justice) --- Restitution for victims of crime --- Remedies (Law) --- Law and legislation --- History. --- Law and legislation&delete& --- History --- E-books
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Serial murders --- Murder victims --- Murderees --- Victims of murder --- Dead --- Victims of crimes --- Multicide --- Multiple murder --- Murders, Serial --- Repetitive homicide --- Serial killing --- Serial killings --- Murder --- Psychology.
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At the turn of the twentieth century, many observers considered suicide to be a worldwide social problem that had reached epidemic proportions. In Mexico City, violent deaths in public spaces were commonplace in a city undergoing rapid modernization. Crime rates mounted, corpses piled up in the morgue, and the media reported on sensational cases of murder and suicide. More troublesome still, a compelling death wish appeared to grip women and youth. Drawing on a range of sources from judicial records to the popular press, Death in the City investigates the cultural meanings of self-destruction in modern Mexico. The author examines responses to suicide and death and disproves the long-held belief that Mexicans possess a cavalier attitude toward suffering.
Suicide --- Murder --- Death --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Criminal homicide --- Killing (Murder) --- Homicide --- Killing oneself --- Self-killing --- Right to die --- History --- Social aspects --- Philosophy --- Causes --- 20th century. --- alcoholism. --- autopsy. --- civilization. --- crime. --- criminal investigation. --- culture. --- danger. --- depression. --- emotions. --- epidemic. --- grief. --- hard times. --- health and wellness. --- homicide. --- latin america. --- latin american history. --- law. --- legal. --- life and death. --- loss. --- mental health. --- mexico city. --- modern world. --- modernization. --- mourning. --- murder. --- public health. --- public space. --- social class. --- suffering. --- suicidal ideation. --- suicide. --- tragedy. --- violence. --- world history.
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"This project, the first of two on global collective violence, focuses on Asia, Africa and the Middle East. While the term "lynching" signifies an American concept, the practice of lynching is a global phenomenon. Edited by Michael Pfeifer, the project looks at the global practice of lynching and related varieties of collective violence, such as rioting, vigilantism, and terrorism, across world cultures. The included essays highlight both the universality of mob violence across cultures and eras and the particularity of its occurrence in certain cultural and historical contexts. With essays investigating collective violence in Indonesia, Nanking, India, South Africa, among other countries, this project exhibits a transnational approach that reconsiders lynching outside of a strictly American context, thereby upending the notion of lynching as an exceptional American experience. With a roster of contributing scholars from a variety of academic disciplines and nations, this volume situates American mob violence as one significant variety of global collective violence among many"-- "Often considered peculiarly American, lynching in fact takes place around the world. In the first book of a two-volume study, Michael J. Pfeifer collects essays that look at lynching and related forms of collective violence in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Understanding lynching as a transnational phenomenon rooted in political and cultural flux, the writers probe important issues from Indonesia--where a long history of public violence now twines with the Internet--to South Africa, with its notorious history of necklacing. Other scholars examine lynching in medieval Nepal, the epidemic of summary executions in late Qing-era China, the merging of state-sponsored and local collective violence during the Nanking Massacre, and the ways public anger and lynching in India relate to identity, autonomy, and territory. Contributors: Laurens Bakker, Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, Nandana Dutta, Weiting Guo, Or Honig, Frank Jacob, Michael J. Pfeifer, Yogesh Raj, and Nicholas Rush Smith"--
HISTORY / World. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society. --- Race discrimination. --- Lynching. --- Bias, Racial --- Discrimination, Racial --- Race bias --- Racial bias --- Racial discrimination --- Discrimination --- Homicide --- Anti-lynching movements
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