‘Diables incarnez, Machiavelistes, heretiques’: the villains of Pierre Matthieu's La Guisiade reconsidered by Patterson, J

“…Matthieu was a militant ligueur when he composed La Guisiade, seeking to vilify those he deemed responsible for Guise's murder: the king, his various mignons, and his malevolent counsellors. …”

The role of spirituality and religion for those bereaved due to a traumatic death by Chapple, A, Swift, C, Ziebland, S

“…Our findings are based on narrative interviews with 40 people bereaved through murder, manslaughter, car crash, train accident, fire, bomb explosion, industrial explosion, or pedestrian incident. …”

The constitutional history of Sarawak / Major Mohd Razali Osman by Osman, Mohd Razali

“…Though unsuccessful, their activities climaxed with the murder of Mr. Duncan Stewart, the Second {Colonial) Governor of Sarawak in 1949. …”
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The baby’s not for burning: the abject in Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Helen Oyeyemi’s Juniper’s Whitening by Anita Harris Satkunananthan

“…The figure of the child is examined from the perspective of a symbol of civilisation corrupted from within and the murder of the child through the lens of Kristeva’s theory of abjection. …”
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Resolving Nigeria's ‘Boko Haram’ insurgence: What role for the media? by Hamid, Adamu Muhammad, Baba, Ibrahim M.

“…Nigeria has no doubt witnessed and is still witnessing several forms of conflicts in both the North and the Southern divides.One of such devastating insurgence that currently ravaged the peaceful and harmonious living in the country is the present conflicts in the North, involving the Islamic sect group – Boko Haram.The sect (which forbid western education) come to limelight in 2009 after the arrest and subsequent murder of the former leader Late Muhammed Yusuf.Since then however, the group have successfully launched attacks that have claimed lives and properties worth billions of Naira, most of which were attributed to the way and manner in which media handles them.The mass media are blamed in several occasions on inflaming the conflict, particularly regarding the nature of their reportage.The critical question is can Nigerian media play any role in resolving the Boko – Haram insurgence? …”
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Playing It By Ear: Improvised Music Livestreaming During COVID-19 by Sugarman, Michael Philip

“…Focusing on a period ranging roughly from the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdowns to the advent of the racial justice uprisings following George Floyd’s murder by the hands of police, this study shows how musicians, organizers, and audiences congregating in jazz, experimental music, and DJ scenes created a widespread, dispersed livestreaming infrastructure that became, at once, an artistic outlet, a community gathering place, and a formidable fundraising mechanism. …”
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The case for mercy killing by Pek, Felicia Jia Ying

“…The act of killing, while similar to the methods used by active euthanasia, is considered heinous and could be classified as murder. In ethics, mercy killing is thought to be violating the personal autonomy of the incompetent patient. …”
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Unsettling silences : the trauma of witnessing in Manto's "cold meat" and "open it". by Lim, Rebecca Sim Ming.

“…The history of the Partition of India is characterized by the senseless violence that erupted across India and Pakistan in the form of rapes, abductions, forced exiles, and murder. The narrative accounts of these brutalities, however, especially in relation to the abduction and rape of women, were often enshrouded in silence. …”
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The deterrence effect of capital punishment in Malaysia / Mohd Hisham Ahmad Nazri, Mark Anthony Martin, Wan Abdul Rahim Wan Mahamood by Ahmad Nazri, Mohd Hisham, Martin, Mark Anthony, Wan Mahamood, Wan Abdul Rahim

“…In Malaysia, crimes that are punishable by death are crimes of murder, drug related offences, threat against the country or the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong, kidnapping, possession and smuggling of illegal firearms and also waging war against the state and the country. …”
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Judging the algorithm: algorithmic accountability on the risk assessment tool for intimate partner violence in the Basque Country by Valdivia, A, Hyde-Vaamonde, C, García-Marcos, J

“…Moreover, our analysis suggests that the algorithmic tool has a high error rate on severe cases, i.e., cases where the aggressor could murder his partner—5 out of 10 high-risk cases are misclassified as low risk—and that there is a lack of appropriate legal guidelines for judges, the end users of this tool. …”

Victoria Stewart. Literature and justice in mid-twentieth-century Britain: crimes and war crimes by Bryan, R

“…Those ‘major’ war criminals hanged at Nuremberg may have received the same sentence as a man who had murdered his aunt, but they did so for very different reasons. …”

The moralization bias of gods’ minds: a cross-cultural test by Purzycki, BG, Willard, AK, Kundtová Klocová, E, Cohen, E

“…We find that people are indeed more likely than chance to indicate that local deities care about punishing theft, murder, and deceit. This effect is stable even after holding beliefs about explicitly moralistic deities constant. …”

A strategic step to collapse the Iranian government in April 1953 by Ebrahimi, Mansoureh, Yusoff, Kamaruzaman

“…The present study investigates one of the British plots, to murder General Maḥmūd Afshār Ṭūs, Police Chief, with the intention of making Mosaddeq’s government powerless. …”
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Damage to Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Impairs Judgment of Harmful Intent by Young, Liane, Bechara, Antoine, Tranel, Daniel, Damasio, Hanna, Hauser, Marc, Damasio, Antonio

“…This prediction was confirmed in the current study: VMPC patients judged attempted harms, including attempted murder, as more morally permissible relative to controls. …”
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KONFLIK BATIN TOKOH MASAKO DALAM NOVEL Auto KARYA KIRINO NATSUO: KAJIAN PSIKOLOGI SASTRA by , EVA NURDINAWATI, , Drs. Deddy H. Oekon, M.Hum.

“…From the results of the analysis, the author concludes that the causes of conflict are as follow, Kenjiâ��s murder, family disharmony, social discrimination, and free desire. …”

UNSUR-UNSUR INTRINSIK CERPEN �LᾹ TA BAHŪ AL-FIRᾹKH� DALAM ANTOLOGI CERPEN �ULBATUN MIN A - AFĪḤ KARYA IḤSᾹN �ABDU AL-QUDDŪS: ANALISIS STRUKTURAL ROBERT STANTON... by , IBNUS SAKAN AL FAISHAL, , Dra. Uswatun Hasanah, M.A.

“…This monomania made him do the crime subconciously. He became a murder and hurt someone with a broad-bladed knife. …”

Factors that contribute to juvenile delinquency: A case study on male juveniles in Henry Gurney Melaka / Siti Nur Edlyn Nadia Zuraiju and Vidya Yazmin Muhammad Yahya by Zuraiju, Siti Nur Edlyn Nadia, Muhammad Yahya, Vidya Yazmin

“…The absence of effective measures to curband overcome this problem is a catalyst to more serious criminal misconduct such as bullying, injury to others, rape, theft and murder. Effective preventive and rehabilitative measures must be implemented in an integrated and widespread manner at the family and community levels, school and rehabilitation institutions in view of the fact that the younger generation will inherit the nation‟s wealth, place, and profession. …”
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Resisting whiteness: anti‐racist leadership and professional learning in majority white senior leadership teams in English schools by Stewart‐Hall, C, Rabiger, P, Lander, V, Grant, V

“…This small-scale study explores interview data from senior leaders in English schools, questioning legacies of colour-evasion and breaking silences to understand the role ‘race’ plays in their schools, appearing exigent due to Black Lives Matter (BLM) movements and the inescapable reality of racism seen in George Floyd's horrific murder. Using Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS) as theoretical tools, we explore negotiations and challenges of leading anti-racist work in systems favouring whiteness as the norm. …”

Fake penicillin, The Third Man, and Operation Claptrap. by Newton, P, Timmermann, B

“…However, a school friend of Lime, Holly Martins, arrives in Vienna to see Harry and, suspicious that the accident was murder, starts his own amateur investigation—only to be surprised to find Harry still alive in the shadows of nocturnal Vienna. …”

Contradictions in judicial support for capital punishment in India and Bangladesh: utilitarian rationales by Hoyle, C, Lehrfreund, S

“…However, while both countries now have relatively low murder rates, India has seen a decline in the rate of executions, while Bangladesh continues to impose death sentences and carry out executions at a higher rate. …”