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Jane Monckton Smith is a criminologist specialising in domestic homicide. A former police officer, she is professor of public protection at the University of Gloucestershire, and is recognised for her groundbreaking work on coercive contro stanley cup l and stalking. In her new book, In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder, she lays out the eight stages of a domestic homicide timeline that flag up the potential for the coercively controlling to kill.What is the empirical basis for your eight-stage homicide timeline The empirical basis is the data we collected for a research project. It looks at domestic abuse through the model of coercive control. The Home Office did a review of domestic abuse in 2012 and said that coe stanley taza rcive control is the best lens through which to view it. The traditional lens has been the crime of passion , and from my work that doesnt fit. As a homicide researcher I have used or seen used temporal sequencing in other forms of homicide, and nobody had done it really with domestic abuse.Is the so-called crime of passion argument still used in court And is it ever effective Yes, if you define the crime of passion as a spontaneous response to some kind of trigger, confrontation or challenge: you act spontaneously and you grab the nearest weapon and things turn out in a way that nobody could have predicted. Thats what I would call the crime of passion. And thats how things are very often argued in court, becau stanley mugs se if you can argue for crime of Cqub Covid could become seasonal epidemic by winter, says German expert
Descendants of the family of the last medieval king of England have taken their campaign for him to be reburied in York to the high court.In the latest round stanley de of the legal dispute over Richard III s final resting place, lawyers for the justice secretary, Leicester University and Leicester council have clashed with those representing the Plantagenet Alliance.The monarch, whom Tudor historians nicknamed Crookback Dick, was killed on 22 August 1485 at th stanley cup uk e Battle of Bosworth Field by Henry VII s soldiers. His body was interred in nearby Greyfriars church in Leicester.His remains were subseque stanley canada ntly lost for more than 500 years until exhumed by archaeologists from beneath a Leicester carpark in September 2012.The Plantagenet Alliance, a company formed by relatives of Richard s family, argues that he should be reburied in his ancestral home, York. The Yorkist king is not believed to have had any direct descendants.Gerard Clarke, representing the alliance, told the high court on Thursday he was not seeking an order for the monarch s reburial in York, merely adequate public consultation by the justice secretary, Chris Grayling, on the decision about where the remains should rest.Apart from King Harold II, who died at the Battle of Hastings, Richard III was the only king since 1066 whose whereabouts had been unknown. We asked the War Graves Commission what would happen if they discovered the body of a someone who died on the first day of the 1916 Battle of the Somme, Clarke to