Temporal patterns in twenty years of canadian homicides

Detailed data describing all homicides in Canada known to the police are collected by Statistics Canada. In this study, three independent teams of analysts search for seasonality and other temporal patterns in homicide rates and frequencies between 1961 and 1980.     

家庭暴力受虐杀夫妇女的心理——对四川省某女子监狱的调查报告

通过对正在监狱服刑的受虐杀夫女犯的问卷调查和访谈等研究,报告了他们个人和犯罪的基本情况;考察了他们在遭受家庭暴力初期、后期的不同心理以及杀害施暴人后的心理和服刑中的心理变化,对待犯罪行为、施暴人、自己家人和判决的态度;总结出司法过程中应该关爱受虐杀夫妇女。     

Who killed whom?: victimization and culpability in the social construction of murder

Based on in-depth interviews with relatives of people convicted of murder, this article examines the ways in which everyday understandings of 'murder' are socially constructed, as revealed by the narratives of murderers' relatives. To this end, interviewees' explanations of the killings are analysed and a distinction is drawn between interviewees who understood the killings committed by their relatives as manslaughter and those who accepted the murder verdict. In defining the offences in this way, interviewee s identified the significance of victimization and culpability to understandings of interpersonal violence. Through the analysis of interview data, it is possible to examine the ways in which 'murder' is seen to have occurred only when particular criteria of victimization and culpability are met.