In March 2008, the German Federal Constitutional Court (GFCC) has passed an important, even though preliminary, decision concerning data retention. The GFCC’s decision accepts the storage of data, but greatly restricts their use to serious offenses like murder and organized crime. From an ethical point of view, it is particularly interesting to look at the justification given by the GFCC, which...

The concept of multiple murders (mm) is as old as humanity itself but it has only become prevalent in academic thought within the last three decades. Over this period scholars have introduced two main attitudes regarding multiple murders. Some argue that multiple murders are, theoretically and empirically, one concept that includes different sub-types: mass murder, spree murder, and serial murd...

With neuroimmunology playing an ever greater role in child neurology, paraneoplastic syndromes--uncommon but often devastating complications of cancer--are in the forefront. Abnormalities of both humoral and cellular immunity support the immunological theory of causation. Through co-complicity of host and tumor factors, targets of immunologically mediated injury remote from the tumor may be dam...

The physical and biological aspects of polonium-210, one of the most hazardous radioisotopes, are summarized. Although this radioisotope is naturally occurring and rare, it received quite a bit of attention after it was used in the 2006 assassination of former Russian Intelligence member Alexander Litvinenko in London. Recent reports on the suspected murder of Yasser Arafat with polonium-210 ar...

Murder-suicide (M-S) is a complex phenomenon that can involve a multifaceted set of interrelated biological and social factors. M-S is also sexed and gendered in that the perpetrators are most often male and their underpinning motives and actions link to masculinities in an array of diverse ways. With the overarching goal to describe connections between men, masculinities, and M-S, 296 newspape...

ABSTRACT The principle that church buildings constitute sacred spaces, set apart from the secular world and its laws, is one of most enduring legacies medieval Christianity in present day. When how came to be defined as has consequently received a good deal attention modern scholars. What happened when status was compromised, ecclesiastical spaces were polluted by acts violence, like murder Arc...

As mediated death has become a staple of contemporary society, debates about the treatment in public domain abound. This article examines true crime comedy podcast My Favorite Murder, arguing that it functions to produce collaboratively ‘provocative morbid space’ which its hosts and audiences can engage contemplating, discussing, negotiating politics murder, victimhood, their surrounding inequa...