Author: Aishath Shaufa Ahmed Steps towards the abolition of the death penalty in countries or imposing a moratorium on its use are common. Yet, it leaves us to wonder how countries that impose capital punishment legitimize it. The death penalty is presumed to serve objectives such as deterrence and retribution. Ideally, it is expected toContinueContinue reading “How do countries legitimize the death penalty?”
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The Defence of Parasomnia – Interpreting Criminal Behaviour
Parasomnias are a set of sleep disorders characterized as undesired physical occurrences or sensations that occur during the initiation of sleep, throughout sleep, or during arousal from sleep. Sleepwalking, sleep terrors, sleep talking, and sleep paralysis are some of the behavioral symptoms linked with partial arousals from sleep known as parasomnia. It can happen at any age.
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