Determining the Causes and Consequences of Murder-Suicide Incidents: Investigating the Role of Society and Psychology
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
The murder-suicide incidents reflect a huge and complex set of societal problems that destroy multitudes of people during the process. Other than the actual involvement of suicide, death associated with such standouts has been noted to have a myriad of complex psychological factors,...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy's Murder and Conspiracies
Course material - 2 pages - Political science
On the 22nd of November 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed in Dallas city center while riding in a presidential car to promote his reelection. Shot with several bullets, the youngest president of the United States died a few minutes later. It was an incredible shock for America and the...
The Law Reform Committee Essay: Murder (Rethinking the Mandatory Life Sentence)
Essay - 5 pages - European law
Sir Edward Coke stated in the Third Part of his Institutes that "of all felonies, murder is the most heinous". As such, murder has always received the most severe punishment the law could give; a law of King Canute stated that Aberemord 'caedes manifestae' was punishable by...
Murdering the past: Influence and immortality in the writings of Edgar Allan Poe
Thesis - 7 pages - Literature
On first reading, the majority of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories are concerned with death in a variety of different forms. Whether Poe is describing murder, the fear of being killed, characters previously deceased who return to life, or those who still live being buried prematurely, the...
Murder: Rethinking the mandatory life sentence
Thesis - 6 pages - European law
Sir Edward Coke stated in the Third Part of his Institutes that “... of all felonies, murder is the most heinous” . As such, murder has always received the most severe punishment the law could give; a law of King Canute stated that Aberemord—caedes...
Serial Killers: A Chilling Exploration
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This paper explores the complex factors contributing to the emergence of serial killers, including psychological, biological, environmental, and societal influences. The documentary outlines that serial killers may display above-average fluid intelligence, but they are likely to be months behind...
Criminal Liability and homicide
Essay - 2 pages - Criminal law
Committing homicide, which according to common law involves the ‘unlawful killing of a human being, caused by another human being', constitutes one of the most serious criminal offenses under the Offenses Against the Person Act 1861 (OAPA 186). The English law recognizes two main acts of...
Jane Eyre and the struggle to reconcile societal expectations
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
In the Victorian era, the essential aspect of a woman's life revolved around her family's domestic sphere and the home she came from. Women from the Middle class were raised to be innocent and pure, sexually undemanding and tender and obedient and submissive. They were presented in this manner to...
Breaking Bad, Season 1 - Vince Gilligan (2008) - Script, Main Character and Direction
Artwork commentary - 1 pages - Television
Breaking Bad is one of the most famous American TV shows of the last decade. In this essay we will focus on the first season of the show which initiates the plot and introduces the main characters. In our detailed plan, we will focus on the synopsis, the main character, Walt, the staging and to...
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (1890) - Psychological mechanisms of dissociation and projection
Text commentary - 2 pages - Literature
Throughout the novel The Picture of Dorian Grey, it becomes clear that Dorian Gray's psychological well-being becomes compromised with every negative thing that happens within his life. To make matters worse, the majority of his issues stem from actions that he has consciously taken, making him...
The escape, manhunt, and capture: A population's test of resilience and Law Enforcement's tenacity
Presentation - 4 pages - Linguistics & languages
You will understand this title that we have chosen to describe in the most accurate way an event. Indeed, we will discuss a murderer who escaped from prison on August 31, 2023. The event happened in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. By escaping from the prison, he has created a...
Criminal Law in an Islamic Legal Society
Essay - 5 pages - Criminal law
The Shari'a does not focus as much on criminal law as it does on family law, but a small part is dedicated to crimes and sanctions, and despite not being strictly applied, those principles still have a normative force among different modern Muslim states' legal systems. Islamic criminal...
Bobby v. Dixon: Does the denial of Miranda taint a later, proper confession?
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Archie Dixon, a murder suspect, claimed that the police violated his rights because they ignored his request for an attorney and by failing to Mirandize him when he was detained for forgery during a murder investigation. In a later relating to the investigation, Dixon was read his...
Macbeth vs. Lady Macbeth
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
In William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the tragic hero or the great and virtuous character, Macbeth is destined for downfall as he brings suffering and defeat upon himself. However, this statement can be widely debatable, as many would assume that Lady Macbeth also plays an immense role in the...
Is Violence an American Tradition?
Case study - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Thio, Taylor, and Schwartz (2012) considers violence to be of types which include assault, serial and mass murder, terrorism, genocide, hate-motivated violence, school violence. The authors argue that the poor are the most likely persons in the world to engage in violence, specifically...
Death and Freedom
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
In a perfect world we wouldn't have to make a choice between empathy and morality, but this world isn't perfect. This essay sets out to prove that while euthanasia, including assisted dying and mercy killing, is a difficult and sometimes impossible choice to make, we should respect and honor the...
Police Brutality in New Orleans
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Various forces exist in any country for ensuring peace and the provision of protection to the citizen from internal and external attack. For these forces to operate accordingly there is need for them to operate within the rules and regulations that governs their operation. Therefore, in case...
JFK Assassination
Case study - 2 pages - Philosophy
President JF Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 while driving in an open limo through the Dallas. The autopsy report conducted showed that he was hit by two bullets-one on his head and another on the neck. Harvey Oswald, the culprit who is believed to have assassinated Kennedy was later interdicted...
Training Day - Antoine Fuqua (2001) - Abuse of power
Artwork commentary - 2 pages - Political science
Antoine Fuqua's 2001 film 'Training Day' explores the darker side of Los Angeles through the eyes of a rookie cop named Jake Hoyt, who is eager to advance to a senior position within the squad. However, the investigator's methods blur the lines between criminal activity and law...
Criminal Law - Homicide
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
When a human being is killed by another human being, the act is known as a homicide. The two main types of homicides are murder and manslaughter with the difference being that manslaughter is a less serious offence than murder (Slapper & Kelly 1999). The English legal system is a...
Violence against women
Thesis - 5 pages - Criminal law
Despite the fact that women are much more likely to be killed then to kill, women charged with the murder of their violent male partners are further victimized by a legal system that has been constructed, interpreted and implemented to fit men's experience and homicidal responses. Current...
Death Penalty Laws
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Death Penalty Laws was established back in the 18th century B.C in the reign of Hammurabi, King of Babylon, where the law was codified in 25 different nations. It was also in the 14th century BC in the Hittite Code, and in the 17th century BC in the Draconian Codes in Athens. This law accepted...
Inequalities Against Women in India
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
The social framework of India is mainly responsible for the persistence of gender-based violence (GBV), as there are persistent gender disparities that stem from patriarchal practices. In India, dowry, child marriages, child murder, selective terminations of pregnancy, sex trafficking,...
Memorize your timetables: The rational world and the power of prediction in Tabucchi's La Testa Perduta di Damasceno Monteiro
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Philosophy
In Antonio Tabucchi's La Testa Perduta di Damasceno Monteiro, the reader is pulled into a detective murder-mystery dealing with decapitation, murder suspects named il Grillo Verde, and tripe. Of particular interest, however, is the character of Don Fernando, a lawyer whose mind...
12 Angry Men: Analyzing the Jurors
Case study - 2 pages - Film studies
The movie 12 Angry Men systematically altered the views of the jurors by eliminating the bias, ignorance, and fallacies. Many of these men held predetermined points of view in which there minds were made up before analyzing the defendant. Through the process of reviewing factual information and...
Reflection on the celebration of the Liberation of Auschwitz
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,' said the philosopher George Santayana, underlining the importance of the duty to remember to fight against the forgetting and perpetuation of past atrocities. Therefore, we shall not forget the Shoah, that is to say, the...
Applied criminology - How are we best to describe the actions of a serial killer?
Essay - 4 pages - Criminal law
The definition of “serial killing” has proved problematic within the confines of narrow legal definitions of murder. Moreover, serial killing adopts multifarious forms brought on by many different states of mind (D, Wilson. 2001). Holmes attempted to define serial murder...
Criminal Law problem question
Essay - 9 pages - Criminal law
This document provides an analysis in answer to a criminal law problem question relating to the law of murder and manslaughter. The problem is set out as follows: Alan and Betty are contestants in the Big Sister game show. They do not get on and Alan feels that Betty is two faced. Betty...
Contributions of the dual transmission
Case study - 6 pages - Biology
Redemption is an important factor to grip the viewer to moral values upheld by the film. And redemption of the character is linked to the satisfaction of the viewer. Because we believe the films according to our religious beliefs related to our culture thus, we can see that the end of movie...
The defense of provocation: The implications of the House of Lords' decision in Morgan Smith [2000] 3 WLR 654
Case study - 5 pages - Criminal law
The defense of provocation is a partial defense, pertinent only to murder. If successfully pleaded, liability is reduced to manslaughter. For the defense to succeed there are three requirements: (i) There must have been some act(s) or word(s) of provocation (ii) The defendant must have...
