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    Socio – Demographic Profile of Criminals Who Committed Homicides: in Relation to Mahara Prison
    (International Conference on Applied Social Statistics (ICASS) - 2019, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Kumara, S.W.P.
    Homicide which is belongs to a grave crime category can be identified as a common crime to any society. Homicide is the killing of one human being by another (Adler, Muller and Laufer, 1991). Homicide can be explained simply as ‘the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought’ (Kornblum and Julian, 1974). Assassinate a person with purposively is a homicide (The encyclopedia Americana, 1959). According to the police records, In Sri Lanka, homicides have been recorded from different areas of the country. In 2017, homicide rate for Sri Lanka was 2.3 cases per 100,000 populations. It is fluctuated the number of recorded homicides cases with the time. Homicide is caused by mix of factors and socio - demographic structure can be a risk factor for homicide. According to these facts it is essential to identify the socio – demographic profile of homicide criminals
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    Socio-cultural factors that affect towards the continuity of the male homosexuality in relation to tourism (Within the Negombo coastal area)
    (4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Kumara, S.W.P.; Chandana, T.H.
    Male homosexuality can be identified as a social phenomenon and a crime, which should be addressed surrounding the tourism in Sri Lanka. According to the Sri Lankan Penal Code 365 (A) homosexuality is a crime. The problem of this study was ‘what the socio – cultural factors that affect towards continuity of the male homosexuality in relation to tourism are. The main objective of this study was recognition of the socio-cultural factors that affect towards the continuity of the male homosexuality in relation to tourism. Fifty local males who are having homosexuals in relation to tourism were chosen according to the snowball sampling method as the research sample. Moreover, two tourist guides, a hotel servant of a tourist hotel, a tourist driver and a hotel owner were chosen according to the purposive sampling method as the key informants. Structural questionnaire, in-depth interviews, observation and case studies were used as the method of primary data collection. According to this research, majority of the sample are engaged in homosexuality because of the pleasure' its percentage is 27%. It could be concluded that there is a clear relationship between both the pleasure and the homosexuality. Furthermore it has been crystal clear that those who are engage in homosexuality in relation to tourism is done in the aim of collecting financial benefits (23%). According to this research, it revealed that peer pressure with the homosexuals (20%) is affected to follow on the homosexual continuity .According to source of key informants it revealed that this concept of homosexuality is being maintained in its sub-culture in relation to tourism. It could be possibly be concluded that a few other factors such as willing to migration (10%), to sell the homosexuality with the aim of earning money (15%), to grasp any other experience by means of which (5%) would be affected towards the continuity of the male homosexuality in relation to tourism.