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I Sverige mördas 17 kvinnor om året av en man de är eller nyligen har varit i intimt förhållande med. Det innebär en kvinna var tredje vecka. Omständigheterna är oftast de samma. Separation, med kvinnan som drivande part. Mannen de lämnar är svartsjuk och av kontrollerande typ. Han har i situationen nästan alltid tydligt uttalade självmordstankar. Kvinnorna har vanligen sökt hjälp och i en del av fallen har man misslyckat med att identifiera deras riskfyllda situation. Genom att finna gemensamma nämnare hos kvinnorna eller i deras direkta närhet, kanske det går att förbättra riskbedömningen som görs när hon söker hjälp eller anmäler en utsatthet? Underlaget till arbetet består av domstolshandlingar och förundersökningar. Teoretiskt kan man titta åt både kriminologiska och sociologiska teorier. Genom kvalitativ systematisk dokumentanalys av nämnt material har en del resultat framkommit; storleken på kvinnan, hennes personlighet samt hennes ekonomiska situation. Vidare och för framtida forskning framkommer olika aspekter kring hur skyddsåtgärder för kvinnan fungerar. Eftersom grunden till resultaten i denna uppsats vilar på relativt få fall vore det även av intresse att göra samma arbete på större mängd material för att se om resultatens styrka håller eller försvagas, samt om det framkommer flera resultat. Intimt partnermord är ett signifikant problem som påverkar både individer och samhälle. 17 offer, 17 långtidsinkapaciterade män och ett ännu större antal barn som utan skuld tillskrivs ett livslångt lidande med konsekvenser för deras framtid, hälsa och välmående. / In Sweden, 17 women are murdered each year by a man they are or recently have been in an intimate relationship with. That means one woman every third week. The circumstances usually resemble. Separation initiated by the woman. The man she is leaving is most often a jealous and controlling type. He has clearly expressed suicidal thoughts, caused by the situation. A larger number of the murdered women did seek help, and in some of the cases authorities has been unsuccessful in identifying the risk situation. Perhaps one could improve the risk assessment done when she is seeking help or reporting vulnerability by finding common factors among the women or in their immediate surrounding? The source of information is court records and criminal investigations. Theoretically, one can look at both criminological and sociological theories. Through qualitative systematic document analysis of this material some findings emerged; the actual size of the woman, her personality and her financial situation. Furthermore, for future research, it reveals various aspects of the protective measures taken to keep the woman safe. Since the basis of the results in this paper rests on relatively few cases, it would be interesting to work with a larger amount of material. This could reveal if the results held their strength or weakened, and if there was more to be found. Intimate partner murder is a significant problem that affects both individuals and society. 17 victims, 17 men incapacitated for a long time and an even larger number of children that without guilt are attributed with a lifetime of suffering including a huge impact on their future health and wellbeing.

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The Crime of Murder of a Newborn Child by the Mother Abstract The topic of this diploma thesis is the crime of murder of a newborn child by the mother. In the first part of the thesis, the author deals with a historical excursion in the Czech lands from the 16th century until the end of the 20th century. The chapter maps the development of the regulation from early modern laws to the current Criminal Code and reflects the influence of previous regulations on the current form of this crime. The work also deals with criminological aspects of this issue in the 16th-19th century. The second chapter focuses on the individual elements of § 142 of the Criminal Code, ie. object, actus reus, subject and mens rea of this crime. The author discusses here, for example, the definition of the time when the crime of murdering a newborn child by a mother can be committed. It also addresses the issue of committing this crime in an omissive manner and the pitfalls associated with proving intent in such cases. The following chapter deals with the developmental stages of this crime and the author discusses mainly the attempt of this crime, with emphasis on the circumstances of the cessation of criminality of the attempt and the attempt on an unfit object of an attack. The fourth chapter of this work is devoted to prevention....

This thesis examines artistic and literary images of murderous women in popular print published in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. The construction of murderous women in criminal narratives, published between 1558 and 1625 in pamphlet, ballad, and play form, is examined in the context of contemporary historical records and cultural discourse. Chapter One features a literature review of the topic in recent scholarship. Chapter Two, comprised of two subsections, discusses representations of early modern women in contemporary literature and criminal archives. The subsections in Chapter Two examine early modern treatises, sermons, and essays concerning the nature of women, the roles and responsibilities of wives and mothers, and debates about marriage, as well as a review of women tried for murder in the Middlesex assize courts between 1558 and 1625. Chapter Three, comprised of four subsections, engages in critical readings of approximately 52 pamphlets, ballads, and plays published in the same period. Individual subsections discuss how traitorous wives, murderous mothers, women who murder in their communities, and punishment and redemption are represented in the narratives. Woodcut illustrations printed in these texts are also examined, and their iconographic contributions to the construction of bad women is discussed. Women who murder in these texts are represented as consummately evil creatures capable of inflicting terrible harm to their families and communities, and are consistently discovered, captured, and executed by their communities for their heinous crimes. Murderous women in early modern popular literature also provided a means for contemporary men and women to explore, confront, and share in the depths of sin, while anticipating their own spiritual salvation. Pamphlets, plays, and broadsides related bawdy, graphic, and violent stories that allow modern readers a glimpse of the popular culture and mental world of Renaissance England.

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The points of departure in this thesis are the reciprocal relationship between the memories of human rights violations, the application of the relevant law and the understanding of what is criminal, as well as the recent trend in German courts to belatedly try low-profile Nazi-criminals. To explore these phenomena further, a critical discourse analysis incorporating historical elements is conducted on the 2015 trial of “the bookkeeper of Auschwitz” Oskar Gröning and the related media-reports. By identifying and investigating the expression of collective memory therein, a shift is revealed in that low-level participation in the Holocaust is no longer remembered as a moral infringement exclusively, but accepted as a criminal act for which a perpetrator ought to be held liable. Alongside Holocaust-focused collective memory, there are further tendencies toward a distinct memory of the prolonged failure of the German judiciary. It was thus found that long-term societal change can prevail against a deeply ingrained culture of impunity.

For decades there has been growing interest into the crime of child murders. Emphasis was placed on victims and those at risk. Not much focus was placed on perpetrators and their families. Evidence suggests that the family and social systems play a vital role in determining adult violent behaviour. This qualitative study aims to explore the experiences of convicted child murderers in their family and social system. Data was collected and analysed, using genogram interviews and analysis. Themes were highlighted using hermeneutic thematic analysis, within a post-modern paradigm. Results were presented in the form of genogram analysis and thematic content analysis. Prominent themes that arose were separation, rejection, abuse, neglect and substance abuse. These life experiences together with poor education are some of the characteristics that may have contributed to the child murderers actions towards children. / Psychology / M. A. (Clinical Psychology)