In the eighteenth century the newspaper became the most important source for the printed dissemination of criminological stories and information. In bringing together thousands of narratives about crime and justice it far outstripped any other printed source of the period. As the primary literary means of accessing stories and information about crime, it is likely that newspapers influenced their readers' perceptions of and attitudes towards crime and the justice system. This article offers a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the crime content of one provincial newspaper, The Kentish Post, or Canterbury Newsletter. The study reveals the newspaper to have been constructed to a template, which privileged crime as one of its most important subjects. However, the editorial imperatives of compiling a regular text with an unprecedented number of stories resulted in a discourse of the nature, causes and consequences of crime very different to that expounded in the pamphlet literature, which had been the mainstay of printed discourses about crime before the arrival of newspapers and with which historians are more familiar.
This paper addresses the need to infuse automation of data management in daily lives and how beneficial it can be for people with Disabilities (PwD) and the general public. This paper presents the idea of making Data a Partner (DAP) so that data can act as a partner to humans; learning from its actions and decisions, making it self-sufficient to take its own decisions by learning from a human. This paper also presents a theoretical model called DAPT, which focuses on four sections of the survey conducted to assess the acceptability ratio in masses. Statistical analysis was performed on the survey conducted using SPSS. The survey's outcome, which gathered 875 responses, clarifies that 69.6% of the respondents voted that infusing automation in daily lives leads the way to the future of data management by automation. The survey concluded that infusing automation into daily lives can be helpful, especially for people with disabilities (PwD), such as those with visually impaired people.
Popular interest in crime is substantial and longstanding, driving the development of crime-based dark tourism attractions. The appeal of these sites can partly be explained through the understanding of functions of transgression as tours provide their audiences with infotainment. These representations of crime both reflect and shape social and cultural perceptions of the nature of offending and victimisation. There is, however, a significant gap in relation to the discussion of these crime-based dark tourism activities with almost no engagement with gender at these sites. To fill this gap, this paper presents a conceptual discussion on tourism to sites of female criminal activity, drawing parallels to similar male crime locations. Examination of online advertising for murder walking tours in the UK reveals gendered power dynamics wherein traditional, western gender roles are enforced through the removal of agency from women who engage in more violent crimes while simultaneously fetishising women as victims of violence, especially sexual. This is evident in the absence of female serial killers within organized dark tours, which often focus specifically on this sexual violence. Thus, the tourist activities that revolve around dark heritage sites, especially those that deal with violent criminal activity, reinforce gendered stereotypes around "acceptable" transgression.
Punishing the Dead offers an engaging and admirably comprehensive analysis of suicide in Scotland, England and Wales between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. The discussion takes a thematic approach which first, in Part One, considers official responses to dealing with the aftermath of a suicide. Exploring the complex procedures of forfeiture and the infrastructure in place to administer the estate of the deceased, the work unravels the various roles of officials within the two distinct legal jurisdictions of Scotland, and England and Wales. This appears to be no easy task, with what Houston identifies as overlapping legal responsibilities within each jurisdiction that were purposefully intricate and convoluted. Inevitably, this becomes a treatise on the inner workings of both national and local power as lordship, social networks, and ties and obligations in relation to suicide are explored.The work then moves onto consideration of the varied treatment of suicides' bodies, both in their burial and also in their corporal punishment. What comes through strongly is the local variation of such bodily sanction; there was no single general treatment of corpses. Depending on location such corpses might, for example, have been denied burial in sacred ground (or conversely allowed, but without a service), staked, dragged, gibbeted or dissected. While such actions were rare, they were important expressions of the community's feelings towards the deceased. Here we have a particularly interesting discussion on contested interpretations of suicide deaths, with different versions being created and used for the personal agenda of the living.Part Two seeks to understand popular attitudes towards those who took their own lives. Drawing upon philosophical arguments, Houston considers religious and secular understandings of suicide, discussing beliefs in the Devil, grace, despair, redemption, and the use of narratives of self-murder as experiential. Identifying developments in religious debate on suicide between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, he ultimately questions the secularization model of suicide. This discussion of how contemporaries rationalized self-murder, exploring interrelated religious, legal and medical debates about suicide and insanity during the Enlightenment, will probably be of most interest to historians of psychiatry. The connection between insanity and suicide was recognized as early as the fourteenth century, although verdicts of non compos mentis did not increase in frequency until after the late seventeenth century. As Houston explains, finding felo de se was more about the principle of strict liability than the intent of the suicide. Finally, newspaper accounts are utilized to access popular attitudes to self-murder.
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