Cortisol in Chicago (from crime of passion to celebrity headline)

2005 ◽  
pp. 147-152
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1975 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 899-900
Author(s):  
Robert Buckhout
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Graphic News ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 160-194
Author(s):  
Amanda Frisken

This chapter shows how, in 1895-96, women’s rights activists attempted to use sensationalism to critique the double standard in domestic violence prosecution. Lacking illustrated newspapers of their own, veteran activists including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and Henry Blackwell, used the pages of the New York Recorder, World, and Journal to apply the “crime of passion” defense to the case of Maria Barbella (or Barberi), a woman tried twice for killing a man who had seduced and dishonored her. Their efforts to introduce into the daily papers a complex debate about women’s rights and the double standard in legal protection helped win the campaign for Barbella’s acquittal. It had the unintended cost of undermining women’s standing to critique honor killings by men.


2019 ◽  
pp. 36-52
Author(s):  
Gian Marco Vidor

This chapter explores the categorization of the criminal of passion in the second half of the nineteenth century, in Italy. In this period, legal and medical scholars switched the focus of the criminological debate from the crime to the criminal, looking at the criminal of passion as a social and physiological being. The attempts of the Italian Positivist School and its critics to understand and define crime-of-passion perpetrators fostered and furthered the analysis of the physiology and psychology of human emotional phenomena, highlighting the complex link between the soma, the psyche, and emotions.


2020 ◽  
pp. 15-50
Author(s):  
Nelly Furman

Simply summarized the plot of Georges Bizet’s Carmen is that of a crime of passion. This banal plot does not by itself account for the extraordinary international success of the story in different media. The themes that explain the tragic end are imbedded in the libretto. Through a textual and structural analysis of the libretto, the themes of love, passion, gender, freedom, possessiveness, and responsibility, as well as the importance of language in human relations are given new emphasis. The chapter concludes with a discussion of personal trauma and political issues that may account for Georges Bizet’s interest in bringing this story to the operatic stage in 1870.


2015 ◽  
Vol 143 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 494-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Slobodan Nikolic ◽  
Vladimir Zivkovic

Introduction. The Institute of Forensic Medicine was founded by Professor Milovan Milovanovic (1884- 1948) in 1923 as part of School of Medicine of the University of Belgrade, and also established the Institute?s forensic collection worthy of a museum. This paper illustrates the way Professor Milovanovic made this collection into a teaching aid for student education. We present a case of crime of passion from the year 1931, from our Institute?s collection. Case Outline. The victim was a 30-year-old woman with multiple stab wounds of the head, neck and arms. It was noted in the case history that the deceased woman was a maid with a wealthy merchant, as well as that she had ?dubious morals? for that time, with three wooers at the same time. Injuries to the forearms and the index finger prove that the victim tried to defend herself. In the autopsy record there is a drawn figure of a kitchen knife with a rounded blade tip, which explains the absence of stab wounds to the skull, and the presence of the impression skull fractures and crushed skull bones. It was concluded that the death occurred due to exsanguination, in turn due to transection of the left carotid artery, probably caused by sharp force, while the manner of death was homicide. Some of the most prominent autopsy findings were multiple mutilating overkill sharp force injuries, localized on the head, indicated sexually motivated murder. Conclusion. Combining the museum specimen, diagrams with injuries, drawn figure of the kitchen knife used, and photographs taken during the autopsy and the police investigation, Professor Milovanovic was able to properly illustrate this intriguing case to students without a computer or a PowerPoint presentation.


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