Submitted by Jorge Silva (jorgelmsilva@ufrrj.br) on 2018-03-13T19:28:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2017 - Thiago Torres Medeiros da Silva.pdf: 1567166 bytes, checksum: 21ca4b448c084780c24ff12c39e96682 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-13T19:28:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2017 - Thiago Torres Medeiros da Silva.pdf: 1567166 bytes, checksum: 21ca4b448c084780c24ff12c39e96682 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-05-25 / This dissertation seeks to analyze the reports about the homicides perpetrated in the city of Rio de Janeiro in the first decade of the twentieth century. With this aim, we will research the main newspapers of the federal capital of the period. In addition, we will collate the newspaper reports with the documents produced by the police and judicial authorities. In this sense, we intend to observe the similarities and disparities among our main sources of research, that is, Rio?s newspapers and criminal processes. To do so, we will analyze the murder of a police soldier in Morro da Favela. In the first place, we will see how the different newspapers reported the conflict involving several public security agents. Next, we will analyze the testimonies of the witnesses and protagonists of his murder. / A presente disserta??o busca analisar as reportagens sobre os homic?dios perpetrados na cidade do Rio de Janeiro na primeira d?cada do s?culo XX. Com este fito, pesquisaremos os principais jornais da capital federal do per?odo. Al?m disso, iremos cotejar os relatos dos impressos com os documentos produzidos pelas autoridades policiais e judici?rias. Nesse sentido, pretendemos observar as similaridades e disparidades entre as nossas principais fonte de pesquisa, ou seja, os jornais cariocas e os processos criminais. Para tanto, analisaremos o homic?dio de um soldado policial no Morro da Favela. Em primeiro lugar, veremos como os diferentes jornais relataram o conflito envolvendo diversos agentes de seguran?a p?blica. Em seguida, analisaremos os depoimentos das testemunhas e protagonistas deste assassinato.

In Rural Water, Amos Durand struggles to bring in the year's corn crop amid constant rain, marital strife, and his son's peculiar role in a murder investigation.

After being away for many years, Maggie Blackthorne returns to the small eastern Oregon town where she was born and raised. She has always been moved by the landscape, a place of mountains, river valleys, deserts, fossil-bearing rock formations, basalt cliffs, alkali beds, sagebrush, bunch grass, juniper, and vast forests of pine and larch. Yet in many ways, she has returned to her hometown to confront her past. Maggie comes back with some personal baggage, but also some authority. She is now a sergeant with the Oregon State Police. As a character, she’s a witty, cynical, tough-talking personality with many inner demons. But she takes her work very seriously, even though the job largely entails chasing after speeding drivers, scofflaws, and inebriates. Until, that is, she finds two men she’s known since childhood brutally murdered. This thesis document presents the first four chapters of Blackthorne, a novel in progress. It’s the story of how Maggie Blackthorne makes peace with herself. It’s also the tale of how Sergeant Blackthorne goes about finding a killer. To get there, she relies on her training, her instincts, and her tenacity. Her Glock comes in handy, too.

Mass murder in the United States is increasing, yet understanding of mass murderers is still relatively limited. Many perpetrators compose manifestos, which include journals, blogs, letters, videos, and other writings. Previous research has indicated that personal messages are of great social and psychological importance; however, there remains an important gap in the current literature regarding studies specific to these manifestos. As such, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to provide greater understanding of mass murderers' motives and mindsets through psycholinguistic analysis of their recorded words. The constructivist conceptual framework enabled gathering, analyzing, interpreting, and reporting thematic language from a purposeful sample of 12 American mass murderer manifestos, all of which were freely available online. The 6 research questions aligned with 6 psycholinguistic themes: ego survival and revenge; pseudocommando mindset: persecution, envy, obliteration; envy; nihilism; entitlement; and heroic revenge fantasy. Descriptive and analytical coding allowed for the identification of sentences and passages representative of each theme. Findings revealed a high degree of support for nihilism and ego survival and revenge, moderate support for heroic revenge fantasy and pseudocommando mindset, and limited support for entitlement and envy. These findings contribute to the existing literature, enhancing social change initiatives through increased understanding of mass murderers' communications and prompting further needed research. With greater awareness comes the potential for early identification and intervention, which may favorably impact psychology and law enforcement professionals and at-risk individuals.

Previous researchers have found mass murderers characterized as loners, victims of bullying, goths, and individuals who had a psychotic break. A gap in the literature that remained concerned the motive and mindset of mass murderers before their attack, particularly those who seek fame, and why they are motivated by such violent intentions. The purpose of this study was to provide a deeper analysis of the characteristics of fame-seeking individuals who have completed or attempted mass murder, as well as insight into their behavior on social media. The conceptual framework consisted of a constructivist model, which guided the exploration the purposeful sample of 12 Americans who completed or attempted mass murder. The research questions aligned with themes provided by Bandura's social learning theory, Sulloway's theory of birth order and family dynamics, Millon and Davis's psychopathy theories, O'Toole's findings on the copycat effect, and Lankford's criteria for fame-seeking mass murderers, and guided an analysis of open-source data. Six main themes among fame-seeking individuals in the United States who had completed or attempted mass murder emerged: (a) fame as primary motivation, (b) preoccupation with violence, (c) presence of specific role models/copycat behavior, (d) strong opinions about society/racial groups, (e) symptoms of narcissism/mood disorder/personality disorder, and (f) failed relationships. These findings add to the knowledge about mass murder and fame seeking. Social change may occur through recommended evaluation of and improvements in current mental health approaches, improved threat assessment, expanded education on characteristics of mass murderers, and dissemination of information related to mass murder.

Even though public mass shootings are relatively rare, they represent an atypical form of violence that is both sudden and yields an unprecedented amount of carnage; for these reasons, an inordinate amount of scholarship has been produced in order to isolate both the causes and effects of these rampages. As there is no clear cut and universal cause, over the past forty years numerous factors have been offered to account for these types of shootings, including bullying, peer relations, family problems, cultural conflict, demographic change, mental illness, gun culture, copycatting, and the media. While there appears to be an element of truth in each of these perspectives, all of these isolated factors focus upon only one or two surface-level influences, thus ignoring the possibility that multiple and distinct causes are interacting with one another. The aim of this study is to construct a meaningful model of motivation that is common to each situation, is to build upon psycho-social theories of crime, and to highlight which combination of specific background factors and processes is necessary to produce these vicious massacres. To answer the underlying research question, "Why do certain individuals elect this specific line of action?" this thesis will first provide a review of the relevant literature, will then emphasize three key social and psychological predisposers that combine together to negatively influence the individuals involved, and will subsequently highlight five separate and unique case studies in order to examine the proposed model.

This study focuses on the influence of mitigating circumstances on the sentencing outcome before and after the McKoy (1990) decision. In McKoy (1990) the Supreme Court decided that the jurors did not have to find mitigating circumstances unanimously. Results are reported based on a sample of North Carolina first-degree murder cases where the state sought the death penalty. Logistic regression is used to determine the importance of mitigating circumstances as predictors of jury decision-making in North Carolina, controlling for the variety of other factors that influence that decision. The descriptive statistics show that the average number of mitigating circumstances submitted and accepted had doubled in the post-McKoy cases. At the same time, the number of aggravating circumstances presented and submitted stayed about the same. The analysis then moved to the consideration of the impact of mitigating circumstances, and whether there had been a change between the two eras. Separate logistic regression analysis revealed that there had indeed been a shift in the effects of aggravation and mitigation, but no in the manner that might have been anticipated, Specifically, in the post-McKoy era, mitigating circumstances had a diminished impact on the probability of a death sentence while, conversely, aggravating circumstances carried an increased impact.

This study is an exploration and extension of previous research on the interactive effects of victim-race and victim-gender on death sentence outcomes. Williams and Holcomb's (2004) study suggests that an interactive effect exists between victim-race and victim-gender on Ohio death sentencing outcomes, such that killers of White women are especially singled out for capital punishment. The current study analyzes a sample of death eligible cases at the trial level in North Carolina to determine if Williams & Holcomb's findings hold up for a different sample of cases and in a different state. Logistic regression is used to determine if there are direct and/or interactive effects of victim's race and victim's gender on capital sentencing outcomes, controlling for the variety of other factors that influence that decision. Results suggest that the interactive effects reported by Williams and Holcomb do not exist in North Carolina at the sentencing/penalty processing phase of capital trials.

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The study focuses the evil within human beings and evil actions against other humans and the human kind. The evil is defined as evil actions such as murder and actions in war. The questions asked is whether the evil has a face and if it is possible in that case to paint that kind of face. The medieval mural paintings in old churches include Cain murdering his brother Abel based on the Bible. The study also includes reliefs, sculptures in stone describing Cains´s murder of Abel and sculptures with the Massacre of the Innocents in Bethlehem according to the Bible. These pieces of medieval art are compared with the paintings of evil faces by some modern artists. The method used in the analysis is Panofsky´s iconological method. The result shows that the medieval art is formally more strictly structurer and that the modern artists have a more personal style. In addition to this fact is the different purpose of the different kinds of art. The medieval mural paintings are storytelling from the Bible and modern art is based on influences from other artists in art history and the artists´own ideas and thoughts in a more persoanl way of painting. The meaning in medieval art is more clear and obvious than that in the modern art. The conclusion reached at is that evil exists but that one cannont talk about a special face of the evil.