Digital Repository

Socio – Demographic Profile of Criminals Who Committed Homicides: in Relation to Mahara Prison

Show simple item record

dc.contributor.author Kumara, S.W.P.
dc.date.accessioned 2019-12-20T08:13:39Z
dc.date.available 2019-12-20T08:13:39Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.identifier.citation Kumara, S.W.P. (2019). 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. p.97, 98, 99 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/20759
dc.description.abstract 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 en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher International Conference on Applied Social Statistics (ICASS) - 2019, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka en_US
dc.subject criminals en_US
dc.subject homicide en_US
dc.subject Mahara prison en_US
dc.subject socio – demographic characteristics en_US
dc.title Socio – Demographic Profile of Criminals Who Committed Homicides: in Relation to Mahara Prison en_US
dc.type Article en_US


Files in this item

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record

Search Digital Repository


Advanced Search

Browse

My Account