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Golenkov, Andrey V. "PSYCHIATRIC ASPECTS OF MURDERS IN CHUVASHIA (2011–2020)." Acta medica Eurasica, no. 3 (September 25, 2023): 16–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.47026/2413-4864-2023-3-16-23.
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Murders are one of the most important causes of mortality in Russia, and most aggressors suffer from mental disorders. The purpose of the research is to study the structure of mental disorders of murderers and its features in Chuvashia in 2011–2020. Materials and methods. The forensic psychiatric examination examined 507 murderers (409 men and 98 women) aged 15 to 83 years (average age – 40.65±13.82 years). Mental disorders, medical, social and criminal indicators of murderers, as well as 507 victims were taken into account. Results. 474 murders were committed single-handedly, 14 – in a group of 2-4 people; ordinary murders accounted for 96.5%, those with two or more victims – 3.5%. Post-homicidal suicides in aggressors were observed in 2.5%. Mental disorders were qualified in forensic psychiatric examinations in 72.6% of the subjects, most often they were alcohol dependence (20.1%), especially among women (27.6%). Among other mental disorders, personality disorders (13.8%), organic mental disorders (12.8%), schizophrenia (6.3%), mental retardation (2.8%) and comorbid mental disorders (16.8%) were noted. 10.5%, most often patients with schizophrenia and organic mental disorders, are recognized as insane during forensic psychiatric examinations. The instruments (method) of murder in 94% of cases were piercing and cutting objects, "blunt weapons" and strangulation. Women were significantly more likely to use "bladed weapons", and men – to "blunt weapons". More than 40% of the victims were family members, more than 50% were acquaintances, friends, and only 6.3% were strangers. Women were significantly more likely to kill their spouses (unmarried cohabitants etc.) and children, and men – acquaintances. 84.0% of criminals were intoxicated at the time of the murder. Both the aggressor and the victim drank together in 59% of cases. Insane murderers (with pronounced mental disorders) were significantly older, had a lower level of education, family status, hereditary burden of mental disorders, various organic harms, they killed two or more victims more often and committed post-homicidal suicides (7.5%). Conclusions. Almost three–quarters of all murderers had mental disorders, and one in five had mental disorders due to alcohol abuse. The leading cause of the murders was conflicts arising between familiar people and/or family members against the background of alcohol intoxication. A certain role was played by the criminal experience of the participants in the incident, long-term hostile relations, readiness to inflict bodily harm to the victim and murder another person.
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Xingzhong, Sun. "A Survey of 217 Women Murderers." Chinese Education & Society 26, no. 4 (July 1993): 7–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/ced1061-193226047.
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Grubin, Don. "Sexual Murder." British Journal of Psychiatry 165, no. 5 (November 1994): 624–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.165.5.624.
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BackgroundLittle is known about men who kill in a sexual context. The present study compares a group of sexual murderers with a group of men who had raped but not killed.MethodTwenty-one men who murdered women in the course of a sexual attack and 121 men convicted of rape were interviewed in six prisons. Victim statements were obtained in 103 cases (73%). Assessment consisted of a 90-minute semi-structured interview, the Eysenck 1–7 questionnaire, and the Schonell reading test.ResultsThe most notable characteristic distinguishing the men who killed was their lifelong isolation and lack of heterosexual relationships.ConclusionsA better understanding of the social and emotional isolation commonly found in sexual murderers may provide important insights into why some sexual offenders go on to kill.
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Hildebrand, Meagen M., and Scott E. Culhane. "Personality characteristics of the female serial murderer." Journal of Criminal Psychology 5, no. 1 (February 2, 2015): 34–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcp-04-2014-0007.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review and compare information obtained for four female serial murder perpetrators, exploring possible personality features that make the female serial killer unique. As this is the first project to explore the personalities of female serial murderers through data collected from the offenders themselves, it is primarily an exploratory study. Design/methodology/approach – The data presented were collected as part of a larger project, which solicited participation from incarcerated, suspected serial murderers. Upon agreeing to participate, each potential participant's background was searched to ensure they met the definition of a serial murderer. The participants were sent a survey packet containing measures related to demographics, psychopathology, psychopathy, and personality features. These packets were sent to participants at their respective prisons, with a return envelope provided. Upon return, surveys were scored and analyzed to create a comprehensive profile of each offender. Findings – The subjects of this study each presented a unique personality profile as measured by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 and Millon Clinical Multiaxial Invetory-III. Three of the four participants did not appear to by psychopathic, which is not surprising given the low incidence of psychopathy in women. Originality/value – This study, while limited by the small sample size, provides the first data set of valid psychological measures collected through first-hand accounts with female serial murderers. Although the data presented did not display a single comprehensive profile indicative of a female serial murderer, it does provide a foundation for further research.
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Karpuszenko, Elena. "CHARACTERISTICS OF FEMALE MURDERERS IN POLAND." SOCIETY. INTEGRATION. EDUCATION. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference 3 (May 26, 2017): 184. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/sie2017vol3.2251.
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The problems analysed in the study were inspired by the increasing number of reports on violent criminal acts committed by women as perpetrators. Therefore, it is worth analysing the motivations for committing the most serious crimes by women. Furthermore, the study took into consideration the determinants of committing the crimes that were connected with family and non-family environments of the criminals. The analysed factors included personality, experiences from the childhood, school and professional situation. The analyses discussed in the study attempted to determine a female murderer profile.
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Jońca, Maciej. "Mulier accusatrix in the Laudatio Turiae." PRÁVNĚHISTORICKÉ STUDIE 54, no. 1 (April 29, 2024): 9–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/2464689x.2024.2.
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Legal sources relating to the imperial period (especially Justinian’s Digesta) show that Roman criminal law allowed women to bring criminal charges only in exceptional situations. On the other hand, to prosecute the murderer of a relative was considered a sacred duty for the members of the victim’s family. Any negligence in this area was perceived as wicked behaviour and detrimental to the memory of the deceased. The obligation to bring a criminal charge, symbolically identified with vengeance (ultio, vindicta), rested with men. The surviving funeral eulogy known as the Laudatio Turiae shows a very different pattern. Its content shows that at the end of the first century BC, it was a woman who accused the murderers of her parents in court and brought about their conviction. The oration makes it possible to initiate an interesting discussion on the real importance of women’s voice in the criminal process and on the social stereotypes that limited their participation in public procedures.
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Grant, Bernadette, and G. David Curry. "Women murderers and victims of abuse in a southern state." American Journal of Criminal Justice 17, no. 2 (September 1993): 73–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02885955.
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McLennan, Ella. "What Big Teeth She Has." American, British and Canadian Studies Journal 28, no. 1 (June 27, 2017): 122–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/abcsj-2017-0008.
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Abstract Myra Hindley is one of the most notorious female murderers in the world. This poem explores the ways in which Hindley has been, and continues to be mythologised by society. It examines the mythical women that have been compared to her, and attempts to demonstrate how dangerous it is to compare real people to fictional characters. The poem discusses how the press depicts murderers and the affect this has on the world. Using examples such as Dracula, the poem also reflects on how facts lose truth over time, and how many stories about real people have become mythologised whether this was intentional or not.
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Sari, Genny Gustina, and Welly Wirman. "Konsep Diri Perempuan Pelaku Pembunuhan." MIMBAR, Jurnal Sosial dan Pembangunan 31, no. 1 (June 8, 2015): 135. http://dx.doi.org/10.29313/mimbar.v31i1.1273.
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Women as perpetrators of murder is an interesting phenomenon to be studied, given the stigmatizing between men and women do in the community. Combining the law, psychology and communication, the authors try to see how the concept of self-female murderers in prison. Results of the study revealed that women prisoners perpetrators can be categorized into two: as the main actors and Performers accompanying. The main culprit is the women who commit murder with his own hands and actors accompanying a woman who was involved in the murder, but no loss of life with his own hands. The concept of self-murder convict women as main actors tend negative, compared with female inmates as actors accompanying murder, as seen from the object of their remorse. Inmates main perpetrator blame yourself for what happened to them at this time, while the inmates as actors accompanying tend to blame others that cause it to inmates
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Fondevila, Gustavo, and Rodrigo Meneses-Reyes. "Lethal Violence, Childhood, and Gender in Mexico City." International Criminal Justice Review 29, no. 1 (December 1, 2017): 33–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1057567717743303.
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This article analyzes a total of 255 interviews with inmates in Mexico City prisons, all of whom were prosecuted for killing someone else (first-degree murder). A comparison is made between two groups of incarcerated murderers: men and women. Our aim is to illustrate and explain how gender interacts with other social groups in the composition of lethal violence in Mexico City, one of the largest cities in Latin America. Research findings suggest that, in Mexico City, women are more likely to use lethal violence against young victims, usually family members, and in closed spaces, especially at home.
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Lavacca, Jeanine, and Wesley A. Kayson. "Relations of Story Wording and Sex to a Recommended Prison Sentence." Psychological Reports 70, no. 3 (June 1992): 883–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1992.70.3.883.
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The purpose of this experiment was to see whether the wording of a story, the sex of the subject, and sex of the person committing a murder would affect the recommended prison sentence. A questionnaire contained a story about a youth committing a murder. The same story was told in three different ways changing the name of the youth in each; one showed the student in a favorable light, one in a negative light, and one in a neutral manner. The sex of the student was changed, and the sex of the participant was also studied. Subjects were asked to sentence the youth. It was hypothesized that the favorable account would elicit a more lenient prison sentence than the neutral account or negative account, also that the women would be more lenient and that female murderers would be treated more leniently. The design was a 2 × 2 × 3 mixed design. The hypothesis for wording of the story was confirmed. Sex of subject and of murderer were not significant. It was concluded that the wording of a story affects subjects' judgment. Further research should be conducted.
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Deretić, Nataša. "The ancient Roman ius vitae ac necis (the right to life and death) and modern abuse of women (femicide)." Zbornik radova Pravnog fakulteta, Novi Sad 54, no. 2 (2020): 693–708. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/zrpfns54-24606.
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This paper attempts to answer the question as to whether the right to "life and death" of a woman (ius vitae ac necis) at the hands of male family members or partners is indeed a timeless category. Is it possible that in Serbia of the 21st century there is still a struggle to promote the "right to life" of women to the level of "basic human rights"? What contributed to the fact that the concept of innate human dignity based on "human rights", which dates back from the feudal social order, has not as yet fully come to life in Serbia as far as women are concerned. What social circumstances contributed to the Roman ius vitae ac necis to outlive centuries and take root especially in Serbia, only under a different name - that of femicide? This notion has been defined as "gender based murder of women, girls, and babies of female sex by persons of the male sex". The murderers in cases of femicide include partners (ex / current, spouses or extramarital), family members or relatives: father, father-in-law, son, son-in-law, etc. Both expert and general public wander whether enforcing more stringent norms by authorities or acting towards changing the consciousness of the abusers or both at the same time, can contribute to eradicating this devastating phenomenon in the 21st century.
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Urgelles, Ingrid, and Danilo Santos. "Perspectivas múltiples del conflicto paramilitar en dos novelas colombianas recientes: Viaje al interior de una gota de Sangre (2011) de Daniel Ferreira y El espantapájaros de Ricardo Silva Romero (2012)." Catedral Tomada. Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana 8, no. 15 (January 5, 2021): 121–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ct/2020.486.
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In this article we explore the paramilitary representation as a form of narrative violence of the so-called Internal Armed Conflict in Colombia in two XXI century novels: Viaje al interior de una gota de Sangre (2011) by Daniel Ferreira and El espantapájaros by Ricardo Silva Romero (2012). Both texts tell about the massacre of peoples, with the indiscriminate extermination of men, women, children and elderly men and women. The stories are articulated from multiple perspectives, which include both the victims and the murderers as enunciators. This swarm of voices establishes a connection with the massacre as an experience of collective extermination in which perspectivism allows for the inclusion of victimizing masculinities, particularly the paramilitary group. This article seeks to highlight the ‘literarized” element from multiperspectivism by which these Colombian novelists face the disaster of the massacre, providing an implicit reading of ideological evaluation to the saturated explicitness of the literary procedure.
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Taljaard, G. H. "Die dialoog tussen die voorblad, die manneplot en die verhale in Dulle Griet van Riana Scheepers." Literator 22, no. 2 (August 7, 2001): 113–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v22i2.365.
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The dialogue between image and text in Riana Scheepers's Dulle Griet This article examines the way in which the content and theme of Riana Scheepers’s Dulle Griet (1991) interact with the “manneplot” (traditional and/or stereotypical portrayal of female characters within novels) and with the cover illustration of the book – a detail of “Mad Meg” (as she is often referred to) from Pieter Brueghel’s Dulle Griet (1562). It explores how the women in Scheepers’s short stories are portrayed – not only as vulnerable, but also as evil and corrupt. They are abused victims; but they are also tyrannical abusers. They are innocent maidens and mothers, but also lovers, prostitutes, lesbians and murderers. The way in which the gradual degeneration of the anonymous central female character relates to Brueghel’s image of “Mad Meg” on her way to the jaws of hell is discussed in this article. But the article also demontrates Scheepers’s concern with feminist issues by using the cover as an ironic “frame”, and shows that the moral decline of the women portrayed in the text seems to be as a result of the actions of chauvinistic men, who appear in different forms throughout the text. Female degeneracy can thus be seen as a survival mechanism, in a world – and a text – dominated by the masculine paradigm, the “manneplot” of traditional male attitudes to women.
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Bikont, Anna. "“A young boy attacked us once and started shooting; we didn’t even run any more.” Murders committed on Jews from the village of Strzegom by AK and BCh members." Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, Holocaust Studies and Materials (December 6, 2017): 265–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.32927/zzsim.718.
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A group of more than 30 Jews was hiding in a dugout in a forest near Strzegom, a small village on the edge of a forest in the Świętokrzyskie Province. Attacked and robbed by the villagers who were members of the Home Army and Peasants’ Battalions, the Jews continued to hide in the forest in smaller groups. The same group of partisans that had attacked the Jews in the dugout continued to capture and murder them, including women and children. There were eight survivors: children and adolescents plus one adult. The article reconstructs the six-month period of hiding basing on a touching testimony of one of the surviving girls, Dora Zoberman, who gave it at the age of eleven, materials from the post war August Decree trials, and recent conversations with the survivors and Strzegom inhabitants. It also reconstructs the actions of the judiciary with regard to the crimes committed against the Jews. Sentenced to death, the murderers were pardoned and released after 1956. One of them received compensation in the 1990s for having been repressed because of his pro-independence activity.
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Farr, Kathryn Ann. "Aggravating and Differentiating Factors in the Cases of White and Minority Women on Death Row." Crime & Delinquency 43, no. 3 (July 1997): 260–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128797043003002.
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An examination of the cases of 35 women on death row in 1993 indicated both between-and within-gender differences. Unlike men under sentences of death, the White women on death row were highly likely to have murdered loved ones, most often male husbands or lovers. The most aggravated cases involved White women, portrayed as seductive or lustful, who were implicated in multiple killings of White victims. Overall, the murders committed by women of color were more likely than those by White women to be in the less aggravated categories and to have been motivated by anger or revenge. Most of the murders were intraracial.
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МАСЛЕННИКОВА, В. А. "“IT'S EASY TO KILL, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE SOUL?”: WOMEN-MURDERERS OF THE MID-XIX-EARLY XX CENTURIES. (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE TAURIDE PROVINCE)." Вопросы национальных и федеративных отношений, no. 4(73) (April 25, 2021): 1074–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.35775/psi.2021.73.4.009.
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Женщина-мать и женщина-жена – традиционное восприятие женской роли в общественном пространстве. Женщина-убийца, а особенно та, кто лишал жизни своего супруга – оплот семьи, вокруг которой и крутилась ее жизнь – обществом не была воспринята. Данное исследование рассматривает и анализирует основные причины супругоубийства в Российской империи на примере Таврической губернии. Подчеркнутое доминирование мужчины в семье, по 1649 г. предоставляло ему еще одно право – безнаказанно лишить провинившуюся, по его мнению, жену. Исследование затрагивает середину XIX – начало ХХ вв. Судебная реформа, вошедшая в жизнь российских обывателей, позволяет внедриться в семейные дрязги, и оценить реальные мотивы мужеубийства. Выяснялось, что лишившая жизни супруга женщина – зачастую несчастная женщина, терпевшая побои и унижения на протяжении многих лет. Были случаи, когда неверная жена, под влиянием своей страсти, решалась на убийство супруга, и в таких ситуациях она действовала не одна – пособником выступал ее любовник. Так называемый, «новый» суд, с внедрением присяжных, оценивал жизнь женщины, ее мотивы и приверженность общепринятым нормам. Тем, кто действовал в состоянии аффекта, кто защищал себя и своих детей от очередных физических унижений и насилия могли снискать и оправдание со стороны судебной власти, а вот те женщины, кто был признан прелюбодействующими, были удостоены высшей меры наказания для данного злодеяния.
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McElduff, Siobhán. "Epilogue: The Multiple Medeas of the Middle Ages." Ramus 41, no. 1-2 (2012): 190–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0048671x0000031x.
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Insofar as we can know, Medea has always been multiple, existing in many different versions simultaneously. She is never simply a literary construction, a stratified intertextual ensemble made up of all the other literary Medeas that came before her, but a product of the values and fears of each culture that imagines her, recreates her, and uses her to represent meaning. The Middle Ages were no different: Medea could figure as an alchemist's guide, as in the Pretiosa Margarita Novella (the New Pearl of Great Price); as an allegory of God fighting the Antichrist in the Ovide Moralisé; as wronged wife in Geoffrey Chaucer's Legend of Good Women; or as a nightmare figure that appears like Grendel in Beowulf to destroy Jason's wedding feast in Raoul Lefèvre's History of Jason. The flexibility of the medieval myth of Medea is staggering—even more staggering than that of the Roman period—stretched as it was across a continent of warring kingdoms, with different authors and audiences pressing classical texts to generate new and culturally relevant and acceptable meanings. However, appropriately enough for a volume titled ‘Roman Medea’, there is one multiple of Medea that drops out of the equation as a direct influence: the Greek Medea, the Medea of Euripides and Apollonius. The loss of the Greek tradition did not impede medieval authors, who found more than enough in Latin texts to inspire them. The basic Latin materials upon which the Middle Ages built their Medeas were Ovid's Metamorphoses and Heroides, along with scattered references in other popular authors like Statius, presentations of irrational women in love like Dido in Virgil, descriptions of child murderers such as Procne also taken from the Metamorphoses, and terrifying witches such as Lucan's Erictho. However, some Latin texts which we might have expected to be influential, such as Seneca's Medea, were marginal to the medieval tradition.
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Sagan, Scott D., and Benjamin A. Valentino. "Revisiting Hiroshima in Iran: What Americans Really Think about Using Nuclear Weapons and Killing Noncombatants." International Security 42, no. 1 (July 2017): 41–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/isec_a_00284.
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Numerous polls demonstrate that U.S. public approval of President Harry Truman's decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has declined significantly since 1945. Many scholars and political figures argue that this decline constitutes compelling evidence of the emergence of a “nuclear taboo” or that the principle of noncombatant immunity has become a deeply held norm. An original survey experiment, recreating the situation that the United States faced in 1945 using a hypothetical U.S. war with Iran today, provides little support for the nuclear taboo thesis. In addition, it suggests that the U.S. public's support for the principle of noncombatant immunity is shallow and easily overcome by the pressures of war. When considering the use of nuclear weapons, the majority of Americans prioritize protecting U.S. troops and achieving American war aims, even when doing so would result in the deliberate killing of millions of foreign noncombatants. A number of individual-level traits—Republican Party identification, older age, and approval of the death penalty for convicted murderers—significantly increase support for using nuclear weapons against Iran. Women are no less willing (and, in some scenarios, more willing) than men to support nuclear weapons use. These findings highlight the limited extent to which the U.S. public has accepted the principles of just war doctrine and suggest that public opinion is unlikely to be a serious constraint on any president contemplating the use of nuclear weapons in the crucible of war.
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Yesufu, Shaka. "A critical evaluation of Thomas Isidore Noel Sankara’s servant leadership style of government in Burkina-Faso." EUREKA: Social and Humanities, no. 2 (March 31, 2022): 93–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.21303/2504-5571.2022.002356.
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Many authors have written and documented this illustrious and selfless son of the African continent, highlighting his unique kind of leadership different from the one that the African continent has ever experienced for a generation. His style of leadership for four years (1983–1987) as president of Burkina Faso eclipsed several African despots and corrupt leaders before and after Thomas Sankara. This article has three purposes as follows: first, to explore and celebrate the short-lived life of Thomas Sankara, and his legacies. Second, to critically evaluate his solid leadership characteristics and achievements relating it to the economy; Political, social, health, while serving as the President of Burkina Faso. Third, to highlight some of his shortcomings with the view that current and future leaders of African countries can learn from such shortcomings. This study is informed by the post-colonial theories of Ali Mazrui and Frantz Fanon. The author makes the following interesting findings. First, Sankara may have met his demise because of his country’s foreign policy (Non- Aligned), his relentless anti-imperialist campaign. The author acknowledges the solid achievements, made during Sankara’s brief term in office, are inspirational in the psyche of African men and women of his generation. If there is anything the author and many admirers and well-wishers of Sankara would like to see, is that his murderers are all brought to justice. More importantly, there are several lessons or styles of governance for African leaders both at home and in the diaspora to learn from this great man Thomas Sankara.
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Lekh, S. K., A. Langa, P. Begg, and B. K. Puri. "The case of Aaron Kosminski: was he Jack the Ripper?" Psychiatric Bulletin 16, no. 12 (December 1992): 786–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.16.12.786.
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The Whitechapel murders of 1888 attributed to Jack the Ripper were, like many of the crimes of multiple-victim killers, well-publicised, bizarre and dramatic (Lunde & Sigal, 1990). Although in the public mind at the time the murders of at least seven women in and around the Whitechapel district of London's East End were believed to have been carried out by Jack the Ripper. However, according to police and forensic evidence his victims, all prostitutes, numbered only five, beginning with Mary Ann Nichols, found murdered on 31 August 1888, and ending with Mary Jane Kelly, whose mutilated body was discovered on 9 November 1888.
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Kaufman, M. H. "Howison, the Cramond Murderer, and Last Person to be Hanged and Dissected." Scottish Medical Journal 45, no. 1 (February 2000): 28–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003693300004500110.
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An articulated skeleton in Edinburgh University's Anatomy Museum of “Howison, The Cramond Murderer”, shares a show-case with the articulated skeleton of “William Burke, The Murderer”. While the murderous activities of William Burke are well known, because of his association and activities with William Hare, and because they sold the bodies of their victims to Dr Robert Knox, the anatomist, little these days is recalled of Howison. He was executed for the murder of a woman in Cramond in December 1831, and was hanged on 21st January 1832. The case is important because he was the last individual executed before the implementation of the Anatomy Act of 1832. Accordingly, under the conditions of the previous Act, of 1752, entitled “An Act for better preventing the horrid Crime of Murder”, his body had to be handed across to the surgeons to be “dissected and anatomized”, before it could be buried.
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Lorentzen, Jørgen, and Per Are Løkke. "Kadına Yönelik Şiddet Sorumluluk Almalı." Bulletin of Legal Medicine 3, no. 1 (April 1, 1998): 3–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.17986/blm.199831285.
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The problem of violence has become a central part of European politics and of each human being in the European countries. We have heard reports of massive rape rituals in Bosnia, we are witnessing a Belgium in deep sorrow because of the slaughter of its daughters, we are experiencing gang wars in the inner cities, In every country, racism is creating death and pain and fradually the knowledge of violence against women and children in their own homes is reaching our consciousness. Most of the time, this violence is talked about in the media in terms of gangsters, devils, murderers, bandits, drug addicts, blacks, nazis, rapists or just thieves, Very seldom are the perpetrators talked about as men, and almost never are they understood within the concept of masculinity. Even when the fact undoubtedly is that they are, in almost every case, men. One of the most important things is that we need to know more about how masculinity is created. What does it mean that the violators are men? What implications will this have for the understanding of violence? What is the specific relationship between masculinity and violence? And: How will it influence the politics of violence - the work against violence in the media, in the streets and in the society as a whole? These types of questions will be the guidelines of our talk here today. Let us go straight to the heart of the problem. While the media and the public's attention are concentrated on the violence which occurs in the public sphere, they are forgetting the violence in the private sphere. Our claim is that the violence which we see in public is largely rooted in the private sphere, It is violence carried out in the private sphere which is transferred and extended into the public sphere. In other words, it is the private violence which should claim our attention, and it is against this violence that the efforts to combat violence should be directed. Focusing on private violence will also enable us to bring to bear a clearer gender perspective. Even though we know that women use violence against men and children, private violence mainly consists of men's violence against those nearest to them: girlfriends, wives and children. Let us therefore spend the few minutes we have presenting three perspectives on men's violence against women, in order better to get to know these men.
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Olyanasab, Seyyed Ziaoddin, Fatemeh Shahmohammadi, and Morteza Pahlavani. "A Comparative Study of the Meanings and Instances of Safaahat from the Perspective of Allameh Tabataba’i and Allameh Zamakhshari." International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding 10, no. 5 (June 7, 2023): 444. http://dx.doi.org/10.18415/ijmmu.v10i5.4839.
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The Almighty God created humans, made them the noblest of all creatures, and bestowed upon them the blessing of intellect. However, sometimes human beings do not take advantage of this gift and waste it by engaging in foolish acts such as drinking alcohol, showing disdain for religion, and the like. In some verses of the Quran, the terms ‘safih’ and ‘safaahat’ are mentioned, and mufassirs have expressed their opinions on their meanings and instances. The present study, conducted using textual analysis and library research methods, examines the meanings and instances of the two terms from the perspectives of Allameh Tabataba’i and Allameh Zamakhshari to discuss the similarities and differences in the two mufassirs’ views. The results of the study indicate that both mufassirs believe that safaahat means foolishness, ignorance, lack of wisdom, sleepiness, lightness, and some degree of foolishness. Allameh Zamakhshari considers those who waste and do not consume their wealth properly as safihs. Regarding the instances of safaahat, Allameh Zamakhshari mentions three instances of safihs, including Jews of little understanding, hypocrites, and polytheists. However, Allameh Tabataba’i has comprehensively addressed the instances of safaahat in several verses and has listed other instances of safihs in addition to Jews and polytheists, such as those who disdain the nation and religion of Abraham, murderers of children, orphans, drunkards, those who are not trusted, children before reaching the age of maturity, and lustful women. The implications of this study could be useful in understanding the Quranic concepts of foolishness and ignorance, as well as the instances in which they are mentioned. The study could also provide insights into the interpretations of Islamic scholars on these concepts and their relevance to contemporary society.
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Filippaki, Iro, and Lakshmi Krishnan. "The Case of the Peculiar Story: Medical Investigation and the Detective in Edgar Allan Poe and Marguerite Duras." Literature and Medicine 41, no. 1 (March 2023): 249–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lm.2023.a911453.
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Abstract: In "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), Poe invents the detective story in English, introducing his gentleman sleuth Auguste Dupin as he solves the locked-room mystery of two women found brutally murdered in a Paris apartment. In L'Amante Anglaise (1967), Duras revisits the detective form, fictionalizing the true 1949 crime of a woman murdering and dismembering her cousin in Viorne, France. These literary detective stories highlight the powerful but unspoken role of affective experience in driving what appears, on the surface, to be a forensic medical or psychological investigation. In both tales, peculiarity is an affective and cognitive force that, contrary to what the majority of affect literature argues, inherently moves toward resolution and closure. Using peculiarity as an analytical concept, we argue that the concealment / discovery binary must acknowledge its affective origins, breaking a barrier between narrative scholarship and medical practice.
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Wattis, Louise. "Revisiting the Yorkshire Ripper Murders." Feminist Criminology 12, no. 1 (July 24, 2016): 3–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557085115602960.
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Between 1975 and 1980, 13 women, 7 of whom were sex workers, were murdered in the North of England. Aside from the femicide itself, the case was infamous for police failings, misogyny, and victim blaming. The article begins with a discussion of the serial murder of women as a gendered structural phenomenon within the wider context of violence, gender, and arbitrary justice. In support of this, the article revisits the above case to interrogate police reform in England and Wales in the wake of the murders, arguing that despite procedural reform, gendered cultural practices continue to shape justice outcomes for victims of gender violence. In addition, changes to prostitution policy are assessed to highlight how the historical and ongoing Othering and criminalization of street sex workers perpetuates the victimization of this marginalized group of women.
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Dickie, June F. "Reading Jael with Women from a Traumatized Community." Biblical Theology Bulletin: Journal of Bible and Culture 52, no. 3 (August 2022): 136–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01461079221107857.
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The story of Jael is interpreted in many different ways; the two main ones are that she is a hero to Israel, or she is a deceitful murderer. An incident that occurred in the Cape Flats, South Africa, some years ago throws light on local women’s interpretation of the Jael story. In the contemporary incident, a woman killed her son, but was viewed by women in the community not as a murderer but as a fellow-sufferer. In this study, women in the community and women in prison (some for murder) read the Jael text, act out the story, and share their views of what was happening in the biblical text. It is clear that contemporary women living in a violent community can contribute to a better understanding of the Jael text through their many parallel experiences.
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P, Vijay, and Vijayakumar M. "Domestic Violence and Sexual Exploitation in Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 12, no. 2 (February 1, 2022): 274–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1202.08.
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Paula Hawkins accentuates the need to prevent one of the biggest social problems, the frequent murder of maids. Her novel, The Girl on the Train, reminds us of the cold-blooded murders of housemaids, school and college girls, and working women. The murdered women’s dead bodies are thrown in the waterways and gutters. For decades, these kinds of disgruntled problems have been diffused through the media. Society is stuck with such criminal cases. Many debates and discussions on the nature and cause of female suppression have been conducted to educate women through the women's development cell in various private and government organisations. Hawkins’ portrayal of women as mothers, guides, wives, friends, and maids paves the way for the reader to understand the perceptions of women and their helplessness. This paper brings out the complications encountered by modern women with special reference to Hawkins’ novel The Girl on the Train.
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Neupane, Khagendra. "Reason versus Emotion in Anita Desai’s Cry, the Peacock." Cognition 2, no. 1 (October 30, 2019): 60–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/cognition.v2i1.55567.
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Anita Desai’s Cry, the Peacock portrays a conflict between emotion and reason. Maya, the married woman, carries emotional values whereas her husband, Gautama, embodies rational ideals.She falls a prey to the patriarchy. She gets disillusioned when she realizes being distanced by male members, whom she considers her protectors. As a result, she turns neurotic and murders her husband. The murderous instinct grows out of her deserted life, together with the sense of her insecurity resulted from an astrologer’s prediction of her or her husband’s death four years after their marriage.
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Volk, Steven S., and Marian E. Schlotterbeck. "Gender, Order, and Femicide." Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 32, no. 1 (January 1, 2007): 53–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/azt.2007.32.1.53.
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More than 400 women have been murdered in and around Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, over the past decade. As the murders continue unabated and unsolved, and with the likely complicity of state authorities, they have triggered a dynamic cultural response from writers, filmmakers, singers, and others who deplore the murders while suggesting the underlying causes of the femicides. Our articleexamines three of these responses: the photojournalism of Julián Cardona, a novel by Carlos Fuentes, and a song by Los Tigres del Norte. We conclude that even as these artists express a profoundsympathy for the victims’ plight, their representations, which are based on patriarchal binaries of male dominance and female submissiveness, act to revictimize the women. Since for these culturalproducers, it was women’s active incorporation into the wage labor force as assembly plant workers that generated Juárez’s “disorder,” then it follows that “order” will only be restored when female passivity is reasserted. We also explore how the workof feminist critics, specifically Alicia Gaspar de Alba, challenges this approach by highlighting female/subaltern resistance, addressing the victims’ basic rights, and raising vital questions aboutgender identity on a highly militarized border.
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Balsoy, Gülhan. "Crime, Gender, Sexuality: Female Villains in Late Ottoman Crime Fiction." International Journal of Middle East Studies 54, no. 1 (February 2022): 141–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743822000058.
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In 1914, a Turkish novella depicting a young woman pressing a dagger to the throat of a bearded old man on its cover, with the title Bloody Fairy (Kanlı Peri), appeared for sale on bookshelves in the capital of the Ottoman Empire (Fig. 1). This relatively small book of fifty-four pages, with its price as low as 50 paras, was available to almost anybody who wanted to purchase and read it. Bloody Fairy was the first of a popular series of ten murder mysteries, National Collection of Murders (Milli Cinayat Koleksiyonu), written by Süleyman Sudi and Vassaf Kadri. On the back cover of the first book, the publishers promised readers that the series would tell matchless mysterious and murderous stories that “will arouse curiosity and excitement” (merak-aver ve heyecan-amiz ) among readers. This cover image must have been rather curious since popular crime fiction usually featured male protagonists as their central characters. In those books women were almost always the target, not the ones attacking men or committing crimes. A crime story featuring a female character leading a gang, not falling victim to a male criminal or being his lover, was not a figure that readers would expect. The preface of this book—and indeed the whole series—depicts countless oddities, strange events, enigmatic murders, and other crimes that had taken place in Istanbul during the prior twenty years. Many of these events were carried out by women. The authors write that although there was nothing astonishing in crimes committed because of a woman, women committing crimes was something never seen or heard of. Thus, they surely hoped that this extraordinary crime series about two female criminals would be a commercial success. On the back cover of the first book, they announced that the series would be published as two parts, comprising ten books each, and would be offered for sale as individual titles every Thursday. Unfortunately, their grand plans were never fulfilled; only the first ten books were published. Although the series is far from complete and we will never know about the authors’ plans to unfurl further crimes and mysteries, something wondrous eventually happened: these two authors, who were never among the canon of Ottoman Turkish literature, were discovered in the 2000s. In addition to National Collection of Murders, several of their other works have been transcribed and published. Süleyman Sudi and Vassaf Kadri, who yearned for popularity in the early 20th century, indeed became popular, albeit a century late.
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Mondal, Subarna. "Dead but not gone: Female body, surveillance and serial-killing in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy." Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook 17, no. 1 (November 1, 2019): 85–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/nl_00007_1.
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Abstract Alfred Hitchcock in Psycho (1960) makes the corpse of an ordinary woman both an object of surveillance and a source of active watching. Mrs Bates and Marion in Psycho, Brenda and Babs in Frenzy (1972) may be seen as predecessors to the series of dead women figuratively staring back in films such as The Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1991) and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Tykwer, 2006). The corpses do not merely offer themselves up as ciphers to be decoded. They reveal the lack in the perpetrators. Hitchcock's Frenzy relies on female bodies for clues to the murders. Hitchcock plays the vital role of bringing about a transition in the way in which women's bodies are to be treated in films, a transition from bodies shrouded by mist and darkness of the noirs to the exhibitionism of naked corpses in brightly lit settings. This article shows that abandonment of the usual tropes of visual impediments such as darkness and fog in Hitchcock's later films suggests a continually developing process of urban surveillance that aids in dehumanizing the victims. Further the post-murder masculinist investigative gaze forces a kind of mock-life on the victims through the relentless search of a killer's live signs on their dead flesh.
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Ruiz, María. "Embroidering Mexico’s Murdered Women." NACLA Report on the Americas 53, no. 2 (April 3, 2021): 160–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10714839.2021.1923211.
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Peternelj-Taylor, Cindy. "Missing and Murdered Women." Journal of Forensic Nursing 10, no. 4 (2014): 185–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/jfn.0000000000000054.
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Wattis, Louise. "Violence, emotion and place: The case of five murders involving sex workers." Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal 16, no. 2 (July 19, 2019): 201–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1741659019858371.
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This article examines a series of murders involving young women linked to sex work, which occurred in the same Northern town between 1998 and 2003. It explores the case on a number of levels. First, it situates violence, and these murders specifically, in the localised spaces of advanced marginality, which follow in the wake of deindustrialisation and economic decline. Second, the article links these murders to sex workers’ disproportionate vulnerability to violence as a result of social stigma and situational risk. However, informed by auto-ethnography and the growing recognition that there is potential for academic analysis within criminology to include the criminologist’s own emotional engagement, the discussion moves on to explore the author’s personal reflection on this series of murders derived from vicarious connection and proximity to victims. In addition, the author draws on the concepts of spectrality and haunting, which have gained currency across the social sciences, to illuminate the irrevocable connections between place, violence and emotion at the level of the local. The concept of spectrality offers a means of envisaging how the past continues to occupy and disrupt the present. Studies of place deploy spectrality and the figure of the ghost to consider how acts of violence and atrocity transform the essence of physical and social space. For the purposes of this article, the concept of haunting is used to explore these young women’s lives and deaths, which retain a strong presence in the collective memory due to their powerful connections to place, as well as the cultural work of the media in keeping them alive in the local imagination. Finally, the political potential of haunting – as a means to confront past and ongoing injustices, is also considered, which draws attention to the combined structural conditions in which these young women were murdered.
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McKelvie, Stuart J. "Effects of Sex of Judge and Sex of Victim on Recommended Punishment of a Male Murderer in a Mock Scenario." Psychological Reports 91, no. 2 (October 2002): 533–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.2002.91.2.533.
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Two samples of undergraduates (36 women, 7 men; 44 women, 45 men) read a mock transcript in which a murderer's victim was a man or a woman, after which they made prison sentence and death penalty judgments. Female judges gave longer sentences for the female victim than for the male victim, whereas male judges gave longer sentences for the male victim than for the female victim. This same-sex bias suggests that extralegal factors can affect judgments about sentencing.
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Ishchenko, Nina S. "A Student that Has the Right: The Collective Anti-Raskolnikov in Donna Tartt's The Secret History." Dostoevsky and World Culture. Philological journal, no. 3 (2022): 147–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2619-0311-2022-3-147-158.
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The paper focuses on Dostoevsky’s influence in D. Tartt’s novel The Secret History. The author shows how the main plot collisions of Crime and Punishment are inverted in the book of the American writer. The character of the book is the collective antagonist of Raskolnikov who recognizes the right to kill. The Übermensch is portrayed in the novel as the impeccable rationalist Mycroft Holmes. The spiritual force that guides Tartt’s characters on the path of transformation into an Übermensch is the pagan god Dionysus, to whom the students go to kill. The novel shows the self-destruction of a murderer who refused to see a person in his victim. The author’s voice in the novel is designed on the model of Dostoevsky’s poetics, using the reception of strange phrases uttered by the hero for no reason, as it happens during the wake with the family of a murdered student. At this moment, a phrase pops up in Richard’s head by itself: “It was I who killed the old woman and her sister Lizaveta with an axe and robbed her”. This phrase of Raskolnikov is a brief synopsis of the plot of Crime and Punishment. In Donna Tartt’s novel, this phrase expresses the author’s position, the author’s explanation of what is happening in the book: other characters in another world repeat Raskolnikov’s fate, and the author shows what this leads to. Raskolnikov managed to escape by converting to Christ and accepting his human nature. Donna Tartt’s Übermensch could not be saved, because instead of Christ he communicated with Dionysus. Taking communion with Dionysus in the ancient ritual of homophagy, students go to murder. The novel shows the self-destruction of all five murderers who refused to see a person in their victim: suicide (Henry), suicide attempt (Francis), alcohol and drugs up to complete desocialization (Charles), selfpunishment in the form of rejection of the joys of life and communication with people (Camilla), loneliness (Richard). Thus, Donna Tartt proves from the opposite the same idea that Dostoevsky expressed in his Orthodox novel: every life is priceless, murder destroys people and the world.
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Chartrand, Vicki. "Unearthing Justices: Mapping 500+ Indigenous Grassroots Initiatives for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirit+." Decolonization of Criminology and Justice 4, no. 1 (February 23, 2022): 7–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/dcj.v4i1.34.
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In the face of an ongoing colonial violence across the land now known as Canada, Indigenous families and communities of the missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit+ (MMIWG2S+) continue to navigate and mobilize in response to a criminal justice system that has long ignored and neglected the murders and disappearances. The Unearthing Justices Resource Collection is an unfinished collection of more than 500 documentation of these grassroots initiatives. The powerful and transformative community care initiatives, as documented in the 500+ grassroots initiatives demonstrate the resource, skill and strength that already exists in Indigenous communities. It also highlights the many facets of what justice is and needs, beyond what a criminal justice system can provide. Using a justice mapping approach, this article traces the varied approaches to justice in the absence of criminal justice support.
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Siregar, Dame. "ANALISIS HADIS RIWAYAT BUKHORI NOMOR 4700 SYARAT CALON ISTERI." Jurnal el-Qanuniy: Jurnal Ilmu-Ilmu Kesyariahan dan Pranata Sosial 5, no. 1 (June 30, 2019): 17–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.24952/el-qonuniy.v5i1.1762.
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Marriage requirements must be fulfilled before holding the qobul marriage contract. The law of dowry is fardu and the sunnah. Mahar is given by the husband to the wife after the first wati, if the same is the acknowledgment before the marriage contract that he is an officer. If it is not official then it must be divorced, because unlawful marriage one of them has committed adultery willingly. Mahar agreed before and after the marriage contract. Mahar must be paid by the husband half if divorced before the first wati, but may be forgiven by his ex-wife or guardian, if before the marriage ceremony the dowry has been determined together and and there is no iddah, if there is regret the ex-husband wants to marry her from the beginning of the marriage, dowry, consent qobul. If the dowry has not been determined yet, but the husband is the wife of the wife before the inheritance, then the husband gives gifts to the wife according to the ability of the ex-husband, and there is no doubt, if there is regret the ex-husband wants to marry her from the beginning of the dowry, qobul. Terms of Islamic wives or husbands, balig, if you haven't delayed the wati according to balig. If you still want a woman to be a silence, if the widow has to say yes or want and other terms. The permission of the prospective wife's guardian must be well known, not to be engineered and other fraudulent methods, whether for officers or widows. Prospective husbands or wives should be knowledgeable, gifted, good descendants, and have religion (know mmebca Al-Qur’an, hadith, Mengethui aratinya, fardu 'ain and kifayah, peraktek worship, know which ones are haram and halal, not just like Muslim in identity card. converts must first study the teachings of Islam well. If the adherent is obliged to wait for the marriage one year from the beginning of adultery, then the adulterer and adulterer may be married after a year is awaited. If there is a child resulting from a woman's adultery, then becoming a child is not father's child, guardian of marriage later when married the child is a marriage guardian.Prospective of husband or wife do not be adulterer, LGBT, drinkers of khomar, smokers, thieves, murderers, fraudsters.Do not gather or polygamy between two sisters, with sisters or siblings or a thousand, or with a bundle of wives, either in the same age or as a whole or as a whole, ethics from either a mother or a mother or a mother. although not yet born by biological children. Do not the woman in which her biological mother has been entrusted, if not married, may be allowed to marry. Do not wife other people either Muslim or non-Muslim who are still legitimate. Do not the woman in the other boy's proposal, as well as the woman still iddah whether he is dead, crai or the woman who is married to her husband. Don't muharromah women based on the Koran and Hadith
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Beniuk, Jodi. "Indigenous Women as the Other: An Analysis of the Missing Women's Commission of Inquiry." Arbutus Review 3, no. 2 (December 5, 2012): 80–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.18357/tar32201211643.
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In this paper, I discuss the ways in which Indigenous women are Othered by the proceedings of the Missing Women‘s Commission of Inquiry (MWCI). First, I give a basic overview of Beauvoir‘s theory of women as Others, followed by Memmi‘s analysis of the relationship between the colonized and the colonizer. I use these two theories to describe the way Indigenous women are Othered both as Indigenous peoples and as women, focusing on the context of the twenty-six who were murdered in Vancouver‘s Downtown Eastside (DTES). The original murders were the result of the cultural reduction of Indigenous Women to their bodies. The negligent police investigations, as well as the misogynistic attitudes of the police, also demonstrate how Othering can operate within these institutions. I claim that the violence against women in the DTES was due to their status as Other. Notably, the MWCI, which is supposed to be a process that addresses the Othering-based negligence of the police, also includes instances of Othering in its structure and practice. From this, I conclude that we cannot rely on Othering institutions or legal processes to correct Othering as a practice. In the context of the MWCI, I suggest building alliances that support those who face this Othering as violence in their everyday lives.
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Davis, J. Madison. "The Murderous Women Writers of Oz." World Literature Today 80, no. 1 (2006): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40159015.
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Asrita, Stara. "Konstruksi Feminisme Perempuan Sumba." ARISTO 7, no. 1 (December 17, 2018): 147. http://dx.doi.org/10.24269/ars.v7i1.1388.
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In much feminist literatures show that women often have been underneath men power. This study aims to analyze about women representation in film “Marlina si Pembunuh dalam Empat Babak”. The method is critical discourse to see hidden contexts in this film with a gender perspective. Some scenes show that woman had a choice to protect herself. The main character of this film, Marlina tried to give a poison and murdered the thieves who want to robber and rape her. Those Marlina’s acts were different if we comparing with women stereotype that existed. Women were described as a second person, gentle and depend on men. The feminist movement in this film show women’s emancipation in social life, struggle to protect her body and family problems in Sumba’s woman.
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Satyre, Joubert. "La vengeance chez Frédéric Marcelin et Sony Labou Tansi : La vengeance de Mama (1902, 1974) et La Vie et demie (1979)." La vengeance dans le roman francophone, no. 119 (February 16, 2022): 69–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1086331ar.
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Nearly 70 years apart, two francophone authors, the Haitian Frédéric Marcelin (1848-1917) and the Congolese Sony Labou Tansi (1947-1995), published novels whose plot either entirely or partially calls upon the theme of vengeance, each featuring the same principal elements: women, dictators, champagne, poison, seduction and sex. In Marcelin’s La vengeance de Mama (1902, 1974), Zulma Corneille, nicknamed Mama, avenges the death of her fiancé, Épaminondas Labasterre, by making his murderer Télémaque drink poisoned champagne during an amourous rendez-vous; in Sony Labou Tansi’s La Vie et demie (1979), after seeing her entire family murdered by the Guide Providientiel de la Katamalanasie, Chaïdana, the daughter of the antagonist Martial, likewise uses poisoned champagne to kill off a number of the totalitarian country’s officials after having offered herself to them in the novel’s eponymous hotel. The goal of this article is to investigate what must be fortuitous similarities between these two novels, as it is unlikely that Labou Tansi would have read Marcelin. It aims to analyse the way in which vengeance is employed in the novels, notably the use of ruses and seduction as a means of enticing the victims.
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Craig, Elaine. "Person(s) of Interest and Missing Women: Legal Abandonment in the Downtown Eastside." McGill Law Journal 60, no. 1 (December 8, 2014): 1–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1027718ar.
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The criminal prosecution of Robert Pickton involved an eleven-month jury trial, two appeals to the British Columbia Court of Appeal, an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, and seventy-six reported judicial rulings. This article, through a combination of discursive and doctrinal analyses of these seventy-six decisions, examines what was (not) achieved by the Pickton trial. It discusses three areas: the judicial representation of the women Pickton was prosecuted for murdering; the implications of the jury’s verdict in the Pickton proceedings; and the impact of the Pickton trial on the families of the women he murdered. The article starts from the premise that it is correct to characterize these murders as a product of collective violence. Colonialism, political and legal infrastructure, and public discourse—and hegemonies based on race, class, and gender that these processes, institutions, and practices hold in place—produced a particular class of vulnerable women, the police who failed them, and Robert Pickton. The article concludes by suggesting that the outcomes of the Pickton prosecution both highlight the limitations of the criminal justice system and offer an analytical framework for examining other institutional responses (such as the Missing Women’s Inquiry) to the kind of collective violence that gave rise to the Pickton circumstance.
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Alabi, David O., Adenike F. Olowookere, Christian T. Tunase, Olufemi J. Olukunle, and Olaoluwa O. Oriowo. "Re-Reading the Story of Bathsheba: A Mother or Murderer in the Royal Court of David." International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science VIII, no. IV (2024): 530–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.47772/ijriss.2024.804041.
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Available scholarly literatures on Bathsheba have viewed her from many angles as a famous woman in the royal court of David. At times she was labeled as a “weak, great influencer, domineering and resolute in whatever she wanted, which she must get it. However, little attention or not attention has been placed on her contradictory traits as a caring mother and at the same times a cunning murderer in the royal court. The Yahwist or Deuteronomist who had close relationship with the court in 2 Samuel 11-20:26 and 1 Kings 1-2 focused on power brokers in the narrative among who was Bathsheba. This study therefore, attempted to cross examine the dual traits of Bathsheba as a mother or she should be considered as a murderer, using critical and historical approaches and social-cultural practices of the day to interrogate the lifestyles of Bathsheba. It is our considered opinion to see which of the character took a leading prominence in her life and juxtapose this with some contemporary mothers through her lenses. The significance of the study lies in the fact that over-bearingness, jealousy and untamed ambitions and character could make someone a murderous mother at home. In conclusion, it is God that gives power and position and over ambitions to hold a position can endanger one’s life and any request or mission that can expose another man to life threatening situations should be avoided. It is therefore recommended that family tussles and crises are real but it should not strategically lead to plots that can terminate another human life as in the case of Bathsheba, Uriah, David and Adonijah in the royal court of David.
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Arifin, Sharifa, and Muhammad Syukron Anshori. "Studi Semiotik Feminisme pada Film Marlina Si Pembunuh dalam Empat Babak (Analisis Semiotika Roland Barthes)." Jurnal Indonesia Sosial Sains 3, no. 2 (February 15, 2022): 191–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.36418/jiss.v3i2.540.
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Background : Film is one of the modern mass communication media as an information medium that has the ability to convey messages. One of the Indonesian films that carries the theme of feminism is the film Marlina The Murderer in Four Acts which is also directed by a woman, Mouly Surya. Objective : To find out more about the signs of feminism that exist in the two characters Marlina and Novi in the film Marlina The Murderer in Four Acts directed by Mouly Surya. Methods : This study uses a qualitative approach to the theory of semiotic analysis of Roland Barthes. The primary data used is data obtained directly from the object of research, namely the film Marlina The Killer in Four Acts and secondary data obtained from scientific sources that can support this research. significant two stages and their mythical elements. Results : This film tells the story of a woman who struggles against the patriarchal system where she gets violence and sexual harassment and the resistance of women in this film is very different from the stereotype in general where women are described as gentle figures. Conclusion: The results of this study show signs of feminism with two female characters with different characters but able to fight, this film indicates feminism but has an element of masculinity. In this film, it is legal to use masculine attributes to seize the goals of feminism, which in this study femininity cannot be limited by symbols and attributes.
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Hughes, Linda K. "DAUGHTERS OF DANAUS AND DAPHNE: WOMEN POETS AND THE MARRIAGE QUESTION." Victorian Literature and Culture 34, no. 2 (August 25, 2006): 481–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s106015030605128x.
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If New Woman writing embraced everything from political reform, sexual freedoms, and economic and social independence to literary publishing, Lucy Bland and other historians have confirmed that New Woman debates often played out in terms of marriage, whether in Mona Caird's path-breaking 1888 essay on “Marriage” or her by-now familiar novel of 1894,The Daughters of Danaus. This title, taken from the myth of women in Hades condemned to haul water in leaky jars after murdering their husbands on their wedding nights, suggests both the futility of life for middle-class Victorian women and the latent, murderous recoil they could harbor. To fall back upon these two Caird works to exemplify New Woman writing, however, is in some ways to perpetuate a generic oversimplification that New Woman writing was a prose medium.
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Triandayani. "ANALYSIS OF FEMINISM ANALYSIS OF FEMINISM IN THE NOVEL “WOMEN AT POINT ZERO”." JournEEL (Journal of English Education and Literature) 5, no. 1 (June 3, 2023): 72–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.51836/journeel.v5i1.488.
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Abstract. Feminism is a movement of women who struggle against sexist oppression and exploitation by calling for equality and justice. The realization that women had equal rights to mine is what started the campaign. Women face discrimination in society due to norms and traditions. By all means, women cannot accept the social behavior that intimidates them. The study used descriptive qualitative approach. The novel Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El- Sadawi details the difficult circumstances faced by Firdaus, a woman who fought for her rights both a woman and a human. Talked feminism and how women in the novel fought for their rights. Because Firdaus murdered a pimp who tried to price her before being hanged, she was forced to stoop. She didn't worry about dying, but rather, she felt liberated by being alone and without a man. She defends her right to be passive in the face of all accusations in an effort to uphold her femininity.
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De Dios Torralbo Caballero, Juan. "”Murderess of Two Husbands”: Female Agency as Female Loyalty in the History of the Nun." Gender Studies 17, no. 1 (December 1, 2018): 20–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/genst-2019-0003.
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Abstract This work studies the behaviour of the protagonist of The History of the Nun: or, The Fair Vow- Breaker (1689) to investigate both what motivates her decisions (from pious woman to murderer) and what the objectives of her author may be. The conclusion reached is that female agency and the transgressive desire developed by Aphra Behn presented a new conception of femininity. Behn challenges the social contract and subverts seventeenth century conceptions of gender. Through Isabella’s behaviour Behn challenges established feminine morality, postulating a new role for women within society. The implication is that the act of breaking a holy vow, and the courage shown by a woman determined to take responsibility for her own life and make her own decisions in society, inevitably ends in tragedy and disaster.
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Andaluri, Rupaali, and Aastha Gupta. "Identifying Patterns/Drivers in Women Criminals." International Journal of Research and Review 10, no. 8 (August 24, 2023): 850–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.202308109.
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The general notion of women, who are usually regarded as caregivers and nurturers, can kill in cold blood is difficult to accept in Indian society. Despite the belief that murders are mostly male-perpetrated, women are often also culprits, killing with the same heartlessness as any male killer. As is the case with other aspects of life, it is often seen that the motivations of women killers are different from their male peers. While many male criminals are driven by sadism, sex, violence and lust, women's motivations are found to be mostly economic in nature. Predominantly many Motives are common, to both genders are greed and mental imbalance. This present paper is an attempt to study different aspects of women criminal with parameters or drivers such as Education, Family Background, Social Status, Personal life, and any history of sufferings Mentally or Physically. This paper also focuses on various Modus Operandi adopted by Such Women. The Study will help Criminologist and Forensic Psychologist to understand the reason why a woman who is supposed to be caregiver is able to take away the life in cruel manner. The study will help to prevent / handle such women from committing such offences by Knowing the psychology and motive behind a criminal mind. Keywords: Forensic Psychology, women, female criminals, murders