Criminology Theory & Practice

Running Head: CRIMINOLOGY THEORY & PRACTICE 1
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CRIMINOLOGY THEORY & PRACTICE 2
Police appeal for help after suspected murder of woman in Melbourne; Retrieved
from: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/16/police-appeal-for-help-after-
suspected-of-woman-in-melbourne
Synopsis
The police were investigating a suspected murder of a woman in North Melbourne.
The police were examining whether the woman was followed off a tram from the city and
later attacked. The married woman, who had already been formally identified by the police
was found by a passer-by early morning near Polaris shopping centre car park, just a short
distance from the tram stop. Homicide detectives were treating the cases as suspicious
Homicide. They later asked anyone who might have a CCTV footage of No 86 tram between
11 pm and 1 am Tuesday night, and had recorded something suspicious should make a formal
report with the police. The police also asked those who might have a dash cam footage of the
crime area covering anywhere between 11 pm and 1 am to make contact with the police. It
had been about 8 months since the murder of comedian Eurydice Dixon, whose body was
later discovered in Princes Park in Carlton on 13th June 2018. Eurydice Dixon’s killers
pleaded guilty in November last year. What the police wanted from the community was
anyone who might have seen person that could have fit the description of the image that
they put in the public .
Case Analysis
Social Structure theory
The cause of this murder can theoretically be considered to be murder by structure.
The concept of social structure often applies to persons that interact with each other on a
consistent basis. A family unit is considered a general social structure. Parents are the head of
the social structure and children are taken care of and directed through that structure. The