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MURDER IN TAMIL NADU(A Study of Murder Trials of 1968)1
The murder trials of 1968 in Tamil Nadu totalling 526 are studied and assessed on the pattern of the U. K. Home Office study. The results showed that there were six psychotic murderers, 16 murderers who attempted suicide, 483 ‘normal’ male murderers, 20 female murderers and 6 youthful murderers. Age...
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1980
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3013218/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22058483 |
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| description | The murder trials of 1968 in Tamil Nadu totalling 526 are studied and assessed on the pattern of the U. K. Home Office study. The results showed that there were six psychotic murderers, 16 murderers who attempted suicide, 483 ‘normal’ male murderers, 20 female murderers and 6 youthful murderers. Age, sex, method of killing and motives of the murderers are discussed. The implications of the study with reference to the penal institutions and prevention of crime are dealt with. |
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| spelling | pubmed-30132182011-11-06 MURDER IN TAMIL NADU(A Study of Murder Trials of 1968)1 Somasundaram, O. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article The murder trials of 1968 in Tamil Nadu totalling 526 are studied and assessed on the pattern of the U. K. Home Office study. The results showed that there were six psychotic murderers, 16 murderers who attempted suicide, 483 ‘normal’ male murderers, 20 female murderers and 6 youthful murderers. Age, sex, method of killing and motives of the murderers are discussed. The implications of the study with reference to the penal institutions and prevention of crime are dealt with. Medknow Publications 1980 /pmc/articles/PMC3013218/ /pubmed/22058483 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| spellingShingle | Original Article Somasundaram, O. MURDER IN TAMIL NADU(A Study of Murder Trials of 1968)1 |
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