Handout 3.1 - The Difference Between Civil Law and Criminal Law When is a legal problem criminal and when is it civil? What difference does it make whether it is criminal or civil? One way of looking at criminal law is that it is dealing with something of public interest. For example‚ the public has an interest in seeing that people are protected from being robbed or assaulted. These are legal problems that fall into the criminal law. Criminal law involves punishing and rehabilitating offenders
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used to collect data. Max Travers and Michelle Newton-Francis both authored articles analyzing how to research and compare criminal justice. Travers article titled‚ “Understanding Comparison in Criminal Justice Research”‚ uses the common method of the positivist model. The positivist model uses statistics which help to provide adequate evidence for the police and criminal lawyers. Travers states that statistics should be used to avoid the use of common knowledge. Common knowledge comes from common
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Article Review-Part A Lora Carr LAW/421 July 29‚ 2013 Joseph Sette Article Review-Part A The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was put in to place as a way of preventing and deterring future accounting fraud‚ protecting shareholders‚ and increasing confidence in public company financial reporting. However‚ SOX has imposed tremendous new duties and costs on public companies and accounting firms. Some individuals may call it an object failure while SOX hoped to create more confidence in capital
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HI 5018 BUSINESS LAW Week 4 Application of Negligence to Business Chapter 9 Applications of Negligence to Business Chapter objectives On completion of this chapter‚ you should be able to: identify and discuss the application of the tort of negligence to the following: a) occupier’s liability b)strict liability c) negligent misstatements d)employer or vicarious liability e) breach of statutory duty f) criminal negligence HI 5018 BUSINESS LAW T2 2014 3 3 1 Chapter objectives On completion
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My interest in criminal law dates back to 1989‚ where I witnessed an incident that happened in my home in Santa Ana‚ California. From what I remember‚ one of the three teenagers threw a baseball size rock through our backyard sliding glass door. My father chased them down and got one of them by the ear. He took him in the house and dialed 911 for police assistance. The other two teenagers got the mother to the front door of my house. It was a chaotic scene‚ the mother of the offender frantically
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another’s property‚ and the Mens Rea is the knowledge or awareness that one does not have lawful access. In the case of Jorge Ramirez‚ New Hampshire’s criminal trespassing law uses broad language that makes it seem applicable to immigration‚ stating that a person is guilty "if‚ knowing he is not licensed or privileged to do so‚ he enters or remains in any place." Where this law uses the phrase “any place”‚ most states’ trespass laws refer specifically to private property and would be difficult to apply
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1. Fred is drunk and driving his dad’s car. Fred is a 21 year old student at Columbia College. Fred rams into a parked car at 10th and Rogers. Thinking no one saw him; Fred moves his car and parks it on an adjacent lot. He sprints to his dorm room in Miller Hall. A neighbor saw the wreck and Fred running to the dorm. Police are called and they arrive ten minutes after the wreck. The officers see several empty beer cans and a bottle of tequila (half full) in the front seat. The tags are traced
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others are primarily used once a crime has occurred‚ such as police intervention leading to a civil suit or a criminal charge; this‚ is the concept of Crime Deterrence‚ sometimes Deterrence can be viewed as flawed for the fact it assumes that most humans think things out before they commit a crime [Mens Rea] Before I proceed‚ I think it best to delve further into to the basics of criminal Deterrence‚ and what it is. Deterrence is based on the concept that if the consequence of committing a crime
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THE RIGHT TO BAIL UNDER INDIAN CRIMINAL LAWS In words of Krishna Iyer J. on the subject of bail:- “..... Belongs to the blurred area of criminal justice system and largely hinges on the hunch of the bench‚ otherwise called judicial discretion. The Code is cryptic on this topic and the Court prefers to be tacit‚ be the order custodial or not. And yet‚ the issue is one of liberty‚ justice‚ public safety and burden of public treasury all of which insist that a developed jurisprudence of bail
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------------------------------------------------- Contributions of the IMT at Nuremberg and the IMTFE to the modern law of International Criminal Law Undoubtedly‚ major development in international law has occurred in recent years through the establishment of several tribunals and their statutes. There have been several criticisms concerning the decisions delivered by those tribunals mainly arguing that they were biased and illegitimate for numerous reasons. They were accused of being unfair and
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