Self- resistance in Dina Mehta’s Getting Away with Murder

Getting away with murder? The suppression of coroners' inquests in early Victorian England and Wales.

Coroners’ records and newspaper reports of inquests are essential sources for local studies of homicide, suicide or fatal accidents, but in some parts of the country violent deaths that occurred in the 1840s and 1850s may be significantly under-recorded in this material. Historian and barrister J.D.J. Havard drew attention to the actions taken in this period by the magistrates of several counti...

Getting Away from Numbers: Using Qualitative

Although in many social sciences there is a radical division between studies based on 13 quantitative (e.g. statistical) and qualitative (e.g. ethnographic) methodologies and their associated epistemological commitments, agent-based simulation fits into neither camp, 15 and should be capable of modelling both quantitative and qualitative data. Nevertheless, most agent-based models (ABMs) are fo...

‘ Getting around and getting on : Self - interested resistance to technology in law enforcement contexts ’

Getting Carried Away in Auctions as Imperfect Value Discovery

Bidders in auctions must decide whether and when to incur the cost of estimating the most they are willing to pay. This can explain why people seem to get carried away, bidding higher than they had planned before the auction and then finding they had paid more than the object was worth to them. Even when such behavior is rational, ex ante, it may be perceived as irrational if one ignores other ...

Blind eye: how the medical establishment let a doctor get away with murder

I wonder how many of us even know of Michael Swango, MD. Or, for that matter, have we heard of Dr Harold Shipman or of Gerald Barnbaum? Even though this is not a new book, I suggest it makes for great reading, both as a thriller based on a true story and even moreso as a scathing indictment of medicine and the processes we are all involved in. The mishaps, reluctance to tell on a colleague, the...