(v. t.) The killing of one human being by another.
(v. t.) One who kills another; a manslayer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rates for homicide have remained steady and have a distinct profile.
(2) Blunt homicide predominated amongst White females, who were substantially older than the Coloured and African subjects.
(3) Nevertheless, it is the black male group between the ages of 25 and 34 years that bears the brunt of both suicide and homicide.
(4) "They have sown confusion in police departments about when to make arrests, made it more difficult for prosecutors to bring charges in cases of deadly violence and, most importantly, they have been responsible for a major increase in so-called 'justifiable homicides.'
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Global trade unions called the collapse ‘mass industrial homicide’, while Vogue magazine described it as ‘tragedy on an epic scale’.
(6) fbi justified homicide chart Academics and specialists have long been aware of flaws in the FBI numbers, which are based on voluntary submissions by local law enforcement agencies of paperwork known as supplementary homicide reports.
(7) On Thursdays the black male-white male ratio for homicide was 1.43 and for suicide, 1.26.
(8) Two remarks from previous analyses are then made: the underestimation of the factor of depression in the homicidal act; and the need for reforming the practice of penal psychiatric survey.
(9) Violence has replaced communicable diseases as the primary cause of juvenile mortality and, currently, over 77% of adolescent deaths are caused by accidents, suicide, and homicide.
(10) CeaseFire placed two interrupters on the ground, and in 2004 there were no homicides recorded at all.
(11) Suicide was more common on Mondays; homicide on Saturdays and Sundays.
(12) This violent potential was reflected by the presence among the alcoholics involved of more past and present antisocial traits, a higher rating on the Nicol's scale of violence, more offences committed against the person and homicidal behaviour.
(13) As a result, the political situation is unlikely to change in the failing state of 8.5 million people, which is home to the world's highest homicide rate and a transit point for much of the South American cocaine heading to the US.
(14) If there are features typical of suicide, the medico-legal analysis of the pathomorphological findings essentially may contribute to the differentiation from homicidal injuries.
(15) The FBI’s “justifiable homicides” database is considered the best measure of cop killings in the US, but even the attorney general, Eric Holder, called the lack of comprehensive numbers “unacceptable” last month .
(16) Although the causative role of mental illness in relation to homicide remains a controversial and debatable issue, recent studies indicate that a significant number of homicidal adults suffer from serious mental illness, more specifically psychosis.
(17) The "work" includes cases in which he believes the Mexican army is responsible for some of the plentiful homicides and disappearances.
(18) Every one centred on the same group of middle-aged, mostly unprepossessing policemen in Stockholm's National Homicide Department.
(19) Second, we used detailed data from police files to examine the same associations for a subset of homicides in south central Los Angeles.
(20) In unnatural death cases the BAC under 0.05% was found in 64% of the suicides, 62% of the accidents, 54% of the homicides and 51% of the drug intoxications.
Infanticide
Definition:
(n.) The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder.
(n.) One who commits the crime of infanticide; one who kills an infant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her story is an incredible tale of triumph over tragedy: a tormented childhood during China's Cultural Revolution, detention and forced exile after exposing female infanticide – then glittering success as the head of a major US technology firm.
(2) Males who developed in utero between two female fetuses, and were thus exposed to relatively low testosterone concentrations during fetal development, were significantly more likely to exhibit infanticide--both before and after mating--than were males who developed between two male fetuses.
(3) Hamster litters were left undisturbed till day 7 to minimise infanticide.
(4) This suggests that the maintenance of the suppression of infanticide in mothers owes something to the special circumstances of lactation other than continued exposure to young.
(5) It is suggested that either legislation should be amended to prohibit abortion after 18 to 20 weeks, or abortion to full term should be permitted and the possibility of legislation for infanticide be envisaged.
(6) Historic episodes of mass infanticide and practices in other cultures, while often cited as warnings of moral peril, are difficult to apply to the problem of infant euthanasia.
(7) A case is here described in which a woman was convicted of infanticide, and attempted infanticide, having been charged with murder and attempted murder.
(8) Virtually all adult wild males exhibited infanticide when they were tested in their home cages (with either a 2-day-old or 7-day-old pup) or when they were placed into the cages of lactating wild female mice and their 2-day-old young.
(9) Although attacks by females rarely thwarted infanticide by male intruders, the behavior may acutely protect parental investment.
(10) Infanticide could be important to curb recent and future population growth and the resulting pressure on the land.
(11) The data essentially show that, in a house mouse population, there is a behavioral polymorphism in response to the coexisting multiple mechanisms which mediate the inhibition of infanticide.
(12) This was the most important impulse for the development of the legal medicine in Germany as the courts now found themselves constrained to hear physicians, barber surgeons or midwives in cases of abortion, infanticidal, poisoning, murder or manslaughter.
(13) Virtually all wild males exhibit infanticide prior to mating, but virrually all wild males were inhibited from exhibiting infanticide 3 weeks after mating whether they were placed into the cage of their former mate and her litter or into the cage of an unfamiliar female and her litter, similar to the effect of mating on the behavior of CF-1 male mice toward young.
(14) The hypothesis, advanced by Asch (Mt Sinai J Med NY 35:214-220, 1968), that a majority of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) cases are actually infanticides, is addressed by examination of age comparable infant homicide rates (United States, 1950-1974) and consideration of current theory regarding SIDS pathogenesis.
(15) Infant mortality through infanticide was recorded in undisturbed and tested hamsters.
(16) It is proposed, therefore, that this psychosis is in fact, in most instances, a form of ergotism and its signs and symptoms and consequences, including coincidental infanticide, themselves are actually manifestations of acute ergot poisoning.
(17) Finally, 35% of sows that produced cubs ceased lactation early, and this loss of entire litters was thought to be due to infanticide by dominant sows.
(18) The socio-sexual factors mediating the inhibition of pup-killing in previously infanticidal Swiss Webster male mice (Mus domesticus) were examined.
(19) Five percent of the sample ultimately committed suicide, and the probable incidence of infanticide was 4%.
(20) Identifiable incidents include infanticide, injury, deliberate neglect, neglect due to ignorance and poverty, and accidents or poisonings where abuse appears to have been a factor.