Tundra is a murder mystery/coming-of-age novel about a fifteen-year-old boy named Ethan and his high school biology teacher, Pam, who come together over a mysterious text-based video game and unwittingly use it to resolve an unsolved murder from 1994. The novel is largely interested in bodies—their perplexities, pleasures, and limitations—as well as what it means to “come of age” as a queer person in a time and place where queer folks are denied so many markers of adulthood—marriage, families, oftentimes job and housing security. This is also a book about the myriad of ways in which technology enables us to pursue modes of connection and intimacy outside of the limitations of both our bodies and repressive social strictures. This thesis contains the first seven chapters of the novel, constituting Part One.

Thesis (MA. (Translation Studies and Linguistics)) --University of Limpopo, 2013 / Ngudo iyi yo sengulusa u via kha Tshivenḓa. Hu na nḓila nnzhi dzine u tenda kha u via ha itelwa zwone. U tenda kha u via ndi zwa ndeme kha mvelele ya Tshivenḓa. Fhedzi maitele aya a u via a vhonala a si avhuḓi, nahone a tshi khou lwiwa nao uri a fhele.

This dissertation focused on examining murder-suicide in the United States through descriptive, time-series and spatiotemporal analyses using a self-created and herein verified national database that spanned the years 1999 through 2009. Chapter 2, "Establishment and validation of a national database for murder-suicide in the United States: 1999-2009," describes the methods and sources used in the creation of a national database of murder-suicide. The database was validated using less geographically and/or temporally expansive databases through the use of capture-recapture methods in two ways: the number of events identified in specified space and time was compared and cases were matched using the perpetrator's name. Victim and perpetrator characteristics were then described as compared to previous studies. Chapter 3, "A time-series analysis of murder, suicide and murder-suicide in the United States, 1999-2007" utilized time-series analysis techniques to investigate the impact of time varying covariates on murder, suicide and murder-suicide. Analyses were conducted in the United States at the national level from January 1999 to December 2007. Johansen's multivariable cointegration analysis showed that two-month time lagged murder was positively associated with murder, suicide and murder-suicide. Two-month time lagged suicide was negatively associated with murder, suicide and murder-suicide. Two-month time lagged murder-suicide was not related to any of the three events. Chapter 4, "Spatiotemporal relationships among murder, suicide and murder-suicide in the United States: 1999-2008" examined space, time, and spatiotemporal relationships among murder, suicide and murder-suicide using a spatiotemporal scan statistic from SaTScanTM. Thirty-five temporal and spatiotemporal clusters of murder, suicide, murder/murder-suicide, suicide/murder-suicide and murder/suicide/murder-suicide were identified. No purely spatial clusters, clusters of murder/suicide without murder-suicide, or purely murder-suicide were identified. The murder-suicide database, that will be made public in 2012, will be a novel source of information for investigators interested in studying murder-suicides with the inclusion of date, place, perpetrator and victim characteristics. Its validation along with the time-series and spatiotemporal analyses provides greater understanding of murder-suicide by itself and compared to murder and suicide.

Apologia is a rhetorical genre of self-defense. As such, apologetic discourse involves a response to an attack upon an individual's character or worth as a human being. Los Angeles Police Detective Mark Fuhrman encountered such a attack during the 0.J. Simpson murder trial. The purpose of this analysis is to determine whether the rhetorical strategies indicative of apologia are used to perform masculine facework in Mark Fuhrman's Murder In Brentwood. By means of critical analysis, apologia can be established as a masculine face-saving strategy. The analysis takes place in two stages. First, the connection between facework and apologia is established. The four strategies of Hodgins, Liebeskind, and Schwartz (1996), Sandra Petronio's examples of defensive strategies, and three strategies in William L. Benoit's (1995) typology of image restoration strategies provide the first two units of analyses. Second, questions gleaned from the research of Noreen Kruse (1977) determined the topics to which Fuhrman devotes the most time in his discourse and the motivational drives that shape that discourse. By integrating the findings of both analyses, the masculine face Fuhrman endeavors to save emerges. / Graduation date: 1999

Although both female and male mass murderers have been studied, less attention has been paid to women who commit mass murder. Current literature suggests mass murders committed by women, regardless of offender choice, are well planned, predisposing factors and precipitating events prior to the offence have been noted. This study explored the patterns among the crimes of female family annihilators. This study focuses on an exploratory sample of North American cases, occurring between 1970 and 2010, where females were identified as killing four or more family members during what has been described as a single homicidal event. Using a North American database of newspaper accounts, patterns are uncovered by comparing variables including, but not limited to: motive, number of victims, method of murder, age of offender and victim age. The findings suggest that a clearer profile and set of definitions need to be adopted in discussions of female family annihilators. Practical and theoretical implications will be discussed. / UOIT

Willa Cather's 1913 novel, O Pioneers! concludes with an unexpected moment of extreme violence as two young lovers, Emil Bergson and Marie Shabata, are murdered by Marie's husband in a mulberry orchard. Cather's novel is almost wholly devoted to the psychological interior of the protagonist, Alexandra Bergson, thereby rendering this violent interruption more dynamic as it essentially undercuts the generally lulling interiority of the narration. My interest here is to examine this strange moment of violence and Alexandra's subsequent forgiveness of Frank for the murder of her brother and his own wife through the theoretical paradigms of René Girard, Jacques Derrida, and Slavoj Žižek.

When her sister goes missing, Kattel Macé must fly to France to find her. While the police are cooperating, they have no leads to go off of forcing Kattel to start her own investigation. In her search, Kattel stumbles across evidence that implicates her own family members in her sisters mysterious disappearance.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rhode Island, 2003. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 172-177).

The Long Division is a novel that applies some conventions and tropes of the noir fiction genre to tell a story from the points of view of five individuals whose fates are interconnected through the narrative. Jodie Larkin is an Atlanta housecleaner who, fed up with her thankless job, hits the road with stolen cash, desperate to reconnect with the son she gave up for adoption. That son is Calvin Nowak, a teenager eager to escape an adoptive family that he feels can never understand him. He and Jodie embark on a runaway quest to discover the source of his pain. Their journey will take them to small town New York, where Calvin’s biological father, Sam Hartwick, is secretly tracking the shooter in a double murder case that will test his reputation and his faith in redemption. That killer is Wynn Johnston, a college student gifted and tortured, who clings to his bright academic prospects while hunted by vengeful criminals, police, and his own demons. He strikes up a desperate relationship with Erika Hartwick, Sam Harwick’s legitimate daughter, just as Sam’s illegitimate son Calvin and one-time lover Jodie arrive in town and instigate a climactic confrontation between all the perspective characters. The novel explores the value of family and how it can be tested by extreme circumstances, especially in paradoxical or ironic context where family is founded on, or broken apart by, characters flaws that threaten the stability of family itself. Likewise, it explores whether certain family relationships can or should be repaired, and the motives and morality of individuals when they support or subvert family dynamics.

Šiame darbe analizuojama tema „Nusikaltimo aukos ir nusikaltėlio interakcija nužudymų ir neatsargių gyvybės atėmimų atvejais“. Aptarta „interakcijos“ sąvoka, interakcijos rūšys, interakcijos tipai, taip pat nužudymo ir neatsargaus gyvybės atėmimo santykis. Mokslinės literatūros, oficialios statistikos ir baudžiamųjų bylų duomenų analizė atskleidė, jog viktiminėje situacijoje nusikaltimo auka, kaip ir nusikaltėlis, yra aktyvus, veikiantis dalyvis. Nužudymų ir neatsargių gyvybės atėmimų atvejais nusikaltimo subjektų interakcija labai panaši, t.y. lydima konflikto, todėl neatsargius gyvybės atėmimus dažnai sąlygoja tie patys veiksniai, kaip ir nužudymus. Nusikaltimo aukos ir nusikaltėlio interakcijos turinys beveik visuomet daro įtaką viktiminės situacijos formavimuisi ir (ar) jos baigčiai. Nužudymų ir neatsargių gyvybės atėmimų priežastys dažniausiai susijusios su nusikaltimo subjektų santykių pobūdžiu, kas vienaip ar kitaip formuoja konflikto sąlygas, patį konfliktą ir jo vyksmą. Didžiąją daugumą aukų ir nusikaltėlių siejo artimi šeiminiai ryšiai, gyvenimas kartu. Nusikaltimo subjektai dažnai konfliktavo ir vartojo psichologinį, fizinį smurtą vienas kito atžvilgiu. Atlikus baudžiamųjų bylų duomenų analizę, buvo pateiktos nusikaltimo subjektų santykių problemos, sąlygojančios nužudymus ar neatsargius gyvybės atėmimus, taip pat šių problemų pagrindu suformuluotos nusikaltimų gyvybei prevencijos galimybės. Darbo pabaigoje buvo padarytos išvados, patvirtinančios darbo įvade... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The topic of this paper is “Interaction between a Crime Victim and a Criminal in Cases of Murders and Negligent Killing”. Concept of “interaction”, kinds of interaction, types of interaction and relationship between murder and negligent killing is analyzed. Analysis of scholarly literature, official statistics and data analysis of criminal cases has revealed that in victim situation, a victim of a crime, as well as a criminal, is an active and acting participant. Interaction of crime subjects in cases of murder and negligent killing is very similar, i. e. followed by a conflict. Therefore, negligent killing is often determined by the same factors as murder. In most cases, the content of interaction between a crime victim and a criminal influences formation and (or) conclusion of victim situation. Reasons of murder and negligent killing are in most cases related to the nature of relationships between crime subjects. This, in one or another way, forms conditions for conflict, a conflict itself and its process. A large part of victims and criminals were related to each other by close family relations, living together. Subjects of crime often faced conflict situations, used psychological and physical violence against each other. After analyzing data of criminal cases, problems regarding the relationships of crime subjects are provided. These problems stipulate murders and negligent killings. Based on these problems, possibilities of avoiding such crimes are formulated. At the end... [to full text]