This paper is part of a project on the adolescent murderer. Briefly, it consists of an inventory of all adolescent murderers in the Greater Montreal area during a quarter of a century, in the period from 1950 to 1974. Although the project has been recently systematically formulated and pursued, it was always part of the McGill Clinic in Forensic Psychiatry's on-going research on homicidal proce...

The aim of this study was to explore the influence of certain aspects of family dynamics, as well as some behavior and psychological development disorders on the occurrence of homicides and attempted homicides among juveniles in the Split Dalmatian County over a period of 10 years (1989-1998). A retrospective case-control study was performed to compare juvenile murderers and attempted murderers...

A nonrandom sample (N = 30) of mass murderers in the United States and Canada during the past 50 years was studied. Data suggest that such individuals are single or divorced males in their fourth decade of life with various Axis I paranoid and/or depressive conditions and Axis II personality traits and disorders, usually Clusters A and B. The mass murder is precipitated by a major loss related ...

In Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, Julia Kristeva outlines her theory of abjection as a simultaneous fascination and horror stemming from sensorial reminders of the subject's primal, psychological relation to the mother. In this essay, I show how these psychological perspectives can potentially result in acts of physical violence, which I call the "abject response." Applied to literatu...

Before the abolition of the death penalty for homicide the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 defined 18 years as the minimum age for execution, the last teenager to be hanged being "Flossie" Forsythe in 1960 at the age of 18. Prior to 1966 a murderer could "hang by the neck until dead" and due to this courts were more ready to allow a culprit to be termed "insane". Since then the number of "i...

Continuing revelations about Joseph Stalin’s reign have led many historians to rank him the greatest mass murderer of our century and possibly of all time. But a growing body of evidence indicates that they are probably mistaken: Mao Zedong, the dictator of Communist China for nearly thirty years, appears to have outdone his Russian counterpart after only a dozen years in power. Two recent book...

The role of Belgium in the reception Fyodor Dostoevsky’s works West is far less known than that France. Eugène Hins (1839–1923), a philologist, freethinker, freemason, secretary Belgian section First International, and anarchist close to Мikhail Bakunin, was major literary translator from Russian into French second half nineteenth century. Hins, whose ideas Russia its culture were those Catholi...

On the morning of October 19, 2004, an eight-year-old boy and a 56-year-old woman were stabbed to death on open street in city Linköping, Sweden. The perpetrator left his DNA at crime scene, after 15 years various investigation efforts, including more than 9000 interrogations mass screening 6000 men, there still no clues about identity unknown murderer. successful application investigative gene...