The most common reason for intimate partner homicide was jealousy, followed by gain, and then love.
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Intimate partner homicides where there is no known history of violence are not uncommon.
Actress Kara Tointon at the official celebrity launch of the Jack the Ripper show at The London Dungeon in 2008.
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Why is it acceptable to leer at photos of murdered women in the name of entertainment?
Charles Manson: cult leader extraordinaire.
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Charles Manson, who has died aged 83, was a cult leader par excellence.
The pyjama girl mystery, as featured in Famous Detective Stories no. 6.
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Once typecast as ‘bad’ or ‘good’ in true crime tales, women are now more likely to be presented as complex figures in them. And many more women are writing true crime themselves.
Eyewitness recollections are easily distorted by the views of others.
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Turns out eyewitness testimony is one of the least reliable forms of evidence.
Amee Meredith and Caterina Politi turned the worst day of their lives into a campaign for meaningful law reform.
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In this episode of Change Agents, Andrew Dodd speaks with Amee Meredith and Caterina Politi, who lost family members to random acts of violence, on their campaign to reform 'one-punch' laws.
Male victims are most likely to be killed by somebody they know – usually a friend or acquaintance.
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Even though males represent around half the population, they account for about two-thirds of Australian homicide victims.
Firearms are not the main weapon of choice in homicides in Australia.
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When it comes to homicide rates, the outlook for Australia is positive with continued reduction in the homicide rate. However, challenges remain.
In the work of many rappers today, the legacy of Tupac Shakur lives on.
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Tupac’s sensitivity, intelligence and creativity confronted the hostile forces that antagonized black youth across the country in the 1970s and 1980s.
Cyntoia after guilty verdict.
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Cyntoia Brown was just 16 years old when she shot and killed a man in 2004. Under Tennessee law, she won’t be eligible for parole until she is 67 years old. Is such a harsh sentence constitutional?
Arvika in Sweden, where the boy ‘Kevin’ was killed.
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An investigation has been reopened into the ‘Kevin’ case, in which two young boys were accused of murdering a four-year-old.
A woman holds a flag as she looks out over the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum.
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Data on violent incidents in the US reveal that our focus on Islamist extremism since 9/11 may be misguided.
Energy and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg speaking on Q&A.
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Energy and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg said he thought that Victorians have never felt more unsafe, and that burglaries, assaults and murders are rising year-on-year. Is he right?
Icelandic crime.
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What one isolated case tells us about crime and community on this special island.
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Legislation designed to bring large business to book should be deployed to bring accountability to the cell block.
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Research shows the vastly different ways the two newspapers approach this important issue.
Tributes left to Elizabeth Edwards and her daughter Katie, murdered in April 2016.
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Two teenagers have been sentenced to life for a double murder. But their crime is extremely rare.
BBC’s The Fall has been accused of being misogynistic.
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On screen violence against women is increasingly detailed, intimate and frighteningly authentic – but there’s often just no need.
Gable Tostee was found not guilty of the murder of Warriena Wright, who fell from his balcony.
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Cases of homicide by falling are rare. But the Gable Tostee case is not the first instance of a fall from a building causing death being linked to criminal conduct.
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Victorians revelled in images and descriptions of murder and mutilation which would today be regarded as shocking.