Bad men do what good men dream, observed the sage, and psychiatrists are frequently called upon to explain why. Murder is the crime of crimes. The murderer particularly inspires the ultimate in feelings of repugnance, fear and fascination for violating man's most sacrosanct commandment thou shalt not kill. While the immediate circumstances of the murder may be unspeakably horrible, the later ex...

Killers of members of their own families have long fueled the archetypical imagination. Our myths, literature, and popular arts are full of such characters as Cain, Oedipus, Medea, Othello, Hamlet, and Bluebeard. In our time the murderous children of movies like "The Bad Seed" and "The Omen"; the homicidal father of "The Shining"; the killer spouses of Hitchcock's "Midnight Lace" and "The Postm...

though, in intentional murder, blood-money which should be received depends upon agreement between him and heirs of the murdered person (in other words, it is reconciliatory), according to abi basir’s hadith, if a murderer escapes and cannot be found, blood-money should be taken from his properties and, if this is not possible, in the next stage from his relatives, and finally from public treas...

How many kinds of roles are out there? Although social and relational roles exist as dominant categories, we can see a lot of other kinds of roles which need closer attention. Although researchers on roles have been involved in defining roles that should nicely cover all kinds of roles, it is not clear how many kinds of roles there are[Masolo 2004][Mizoguchi 2007]. We have been investigating ro...