Saudi Homicide Judgements Corpus for Forensic and Cognitive Linguistic Analysis

15 Saudi homicide judgements from Majmuʿat al-Ahkam al-Qadaʾiyya (Vol. 13) form the core of this dataset. Author Bunder Sebail Alshammari created this 61.4 KB text corpus to analyze the linguistic construction of mental illness, responsibility, and evidential stance. The dataset was last updated on 2026-04-13 and is licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Use Cases

• Analyze linguistic markers of evidential stance and epistemic commitment based on Arabic stance verbs and evidential frames.
• Study the discursive construction of criminal responsibility and legal capacity (ahliyya) in judicial texts.
• Examine the integration of psychiatric reasoning and Islamic jurisprudential concepts (ʿaql, taklif) in legal rulings.
• Perform corpus-assisted qualitative research on judicial discourse within a sharia-based criminal system.
• Investigate lexical choices and cognitive framing used to prototype the 'mentally ill yet punishable offender'.

Strengths

• Corpus is based on 15 specific, published homicide judgements from an official collection (Majmuʿat al-Ahkam al-Qadaʾiyya).
• Analysis integrates multiple frameworks: forensic pragmatics, stance/evidentiality research, and cognitive linguistics.
• Includes a detailed case study of a schizophrenia ruling noted for its rich psychiatric reasoning.
• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0 for reuse and redistribution.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The 61.4 KB size indicates a very small, focused corpus of text documents.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Corpus-assisted qualitative design screening 15 judgements from Majmuʿat al-Ahkam al-Qadaʾiyya (Vol. 13).

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-13 12:12:46; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Saudi Arabia