Con profondo dolore comunico il decesso del prof. Francesco Introna, professore emerito di medicina legale nell'Universit? di Padova, avvenuta improvvisamente la scorsa notte.Il prof. Introna ? stato il mio insegnante di medicina legale quand'ero stu...
E' morta all'ospedale di Sant'Andrea, a Roma, la signora violentata e gettata in un dirupo nei pressi della stazioncina di Tor di Quinto. La polizia ha arrestato un giovane rumeno. Leggi http://www.corriere.it/cronache/07_ottobre_31/violentata_donna_ro...
Sparrow, at All Atwitter runs a haiku contest on Wednesdays. The submitter of the winning haiku gets a care package sent to a service member of their choice. It appeals to me.This week's subject is spam (the email)
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Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Ba´alatDOI 10.1007/s12024-007-9008-6Authors
Ralph BouHaidar, University of Leicester Forensic Pathology Unit, Leicester Royal Infirmary Robert Kilpatrick Building Leicester LE2 7LX EnglandElisabeth E. Turk, University of Hamburg Institute of Legal Medicine Butenfeld 34 Hamburg 22529 Germany
Journal Forensic Science, Medicine, and PathologyOnline ISSN 1556-2891Print ISSN 1547-769X (Source: Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology)
The dead don't bother me. They're much more well behaved than the living. They just stay in one place, cool off, and fall apart. Living people are untidy. Well, so is an advanced decomp, but in a different, quieter way.One Hallowe'en, a policeman a...
After teaching for a number of years, one acquires some skills. I've got the talking for 50 minutes thing down pat. I'm good at telling people why they should be interested in this stuff. I'm great at audience eye contact.Heck any presentation that ...
Predicting offender home location in urban burglary series.
Forensic Sci Int. 2007 Oct 31;
Authors: Laukkanen M, Santtila P, Jern P, Sandnabba K
Residential location of a criminal can be predicted statistically [M. Laukkanen, P. Santtila, Predicting the home location of a serial commercial robber, Forensic Sci. Int. 157 (2006) 71-82]. Examined were: accuracy of the technique for urban burglary series, correlations between way of committing burglary and distance and use of those correlations in enhancing prediction accuracy. Data: 78 residential burglary series from Greater Helsinki area, Finland. Series for which the home location prediction was made was never part of the predicting model. Distances between home and crime-site were short (Mdn 3.88km; IQR=1.16-10.10km). Search area of a perpetrator could be limited to 1.95% (Mdn, IQR=0.64-18.70%) of the total study area. For series which conformed to Circle Hypothesis (45%), search area was 0.84% (Mdn, IQR=0.51-2.34%). Correlations between crime features and distance were found to enhance accuracy when features of series hinted short distance: sub-model limited search area to 0.19% (Mdn, IQR=0.07-0.65%).
PMID: 17980532 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
(Source: Forensic Science International)
The relationship between serial sexual murder and autoerotic asphyxiation.
Forensic Sci Int. 2007 Oct 31;
Authors: Myers WC, Bukhanovskiy A, Justen E, Morton RJ, Tilley J, Adams K, Vandagriff VL, Hazelwood RR
This case series documents and examines the association between autoerotic asphyxiation, sadomasochism, and serial sexual murderers. Autoerotic asphyxiation, along with other paraphilias found in this population, is reviewed. Five cases of serial sexual killers who engaged in autoerotic asphyxiation were identified worldwide: four from the United States and one from Russia. Case reports for each are provided. All (100%) were found to have sexual sadism in addition to autoerotic asphyxiation. Furthermore, two (40%) had bondage fetishism, and two (40%) had transvestic fetishism, consistent with these paraphilias co-occurring in those with autoerotic asphyxiation. Overall the group averaged 4.0 lifetime paraphilias. Some possible relationships were observed between the offenders' paraphilic orientation and their modus operandi, e.g., all of these serial killers strangled victims-suggesting an association between their sadistic and asphyxiative paraphilic interests. The overlap of seemingly polar opposite paraphilias in this sample - sexual sadism and autoerotic asphyxiation - is explored from a historical and clinical perspective. Multiple commonalities shared between these five offenders and serial sexual murderers in general are addressed. A primary limitation of this study is its small sample size and empirical basis; the results may not be generalizable beyond the sample. The findings from this study support the supposition that crime scene behaviors often reflect paraphilic disturbances in those who commit serial sexual homicides.
PMID: 17980531 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
(Source: Forensic Science International)
Un giovane di 22 anni ha violentato quattro nipotine, e l'ha riferito allo psichiatra che l'ha in cura. Lo psichiatra a sua volta l'ha riferito all'Autorit? Giudiziaria, che ha fatto arrestare il giovane. Leggi http://www.corriere.it/cronache/07_ottob...
