LAW DEPARTMENT A2 Criminal Law Study Pack 2010 / 2011 Name CONTENTS PAGE 1. Homicide - Murder 3 2. Voluntary Manslaughter 8 3. Involuntary Manslaughter 20 4. Defences: Insanity 29 5. Automatism 32 6. Intoxication 35 7. Self-defence 37 8. Consent 42 9. Critical evaluation of murder and voluntary manslaughter 47 10. Critical
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Who’s in Charge Here? Some Observations on the Relationship Between Disasters and the American Criminal Justice System Robert J. Louden‚ Ph.D. Professor and Program Director‚ Criminal Justice Department of Sociology‚ Anthropology and Criminal Justice Georgian Court University 900 Lakewood Avenue‚ Lakewood‚ New Jersey 08701 (732) 987-2711 loudenr@georgian.edu www.georgian.edu Abstract: Since the beginning of time the world has experienced a wide range of disasters. Responsibility
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biological and/or psychological traits” (Siegel 564). I found this theory to be very interesting because it talks about all of these factors that could increase the likelihood of someone becoming a criminal. When looking at this this theory it suggests that maybe the driving factor in someone making them do criminal activities is something simple like a hormonal imbalance. This could be very useful to know because there might be a cure whatever it is that is making them commit crimes. In the late nineteenth
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Improving the Criminal Justice System Ivy B. Danforth University of Phoenix Public Policy Issues CJA/580 Jeffery P. Codner March 29‚ 2010 Improving the Criminal Justice System Senator Jim Webb crusades against prison overcrowding citing a need to repair the criminal justice system by recalculating “who goes to prison and for how long” (Webb‚ 2009‚ p. 4). The U. S. Justice Department and Senator Webb agree that drug abuse and addiction results in an overburdened justice system. According
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It is fair to be tried in both civil and criminal court for the same alleged actions because they deal with different aspects of the crime. For civil cases‚ it deals with whether you are liable or not‚ while in criminal cases it’s whether your guilty or not. You can be found not guilty in a criminal case‚ however‚ you can still be found liable in civil cases. It is only fair that the victims get awarded damages. Furthermore‚ it is not against the 5th amendment since the defendant won’t be at risk
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Should Juvenile Offenders Be Tried As Adults? A Developmental Perspective on Changing Legal Policies Laurence Steinberg Temple University and The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice Paper presented as a part of a Congressional Research Briefing entitled “Juvenile Crime: Causes and Consequences‚” Washington‚ January 19‚ 2000. Address correspondence to the author at the Department of Psychology‚ Temple University‚ Philadelphia
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promising future technology in the criminal justice arena? Fully explain the technology and why you believe it is the most promising? Technology is getting more and more advanced‚ for that matter it make things in criminal justice much easier. Technology helps us to improve public safety in many ways. For example‚ it can keep criminal records and identities save. It can keep criminals away from buying weapons and other dangerous tools. In order to catch a criminal you have to have the right tools
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interactions. Modern society allocates the task of making these decisions to the criminal justice system‚ which is thereby the primary destination when seeking fairness and equality in justice. However‚ the reality is less than ideal since here are various elements that can curtail the delivery of equal justice‚ such as racial and socioeconomic backgrounds among other factors. As a result‚ there is an increasing need for the criminal justice system to come to terms with the biases that hinder the effective
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Profiling in Criminal Investigation The use of psychology in the criminal justice field is not a new idea. Just think of the many films and television series which employ profiling for its entertainment value: Silence of the Lambs‚ Criminal Minds‚ Law and Order‚ the Mentalist‚ and Perception—to name a few. With this glorified view of psychology in criminal investigations‚ it seems impossible that the real science behind the myth would be anything other than psychic intuition. However‚ there is
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* The Role of Parole in Criminal Justice Loren Martin Kelli Callahan CRJ 305 April 25‚ 2011 * The Role of Parole in Criminal Justice * What is parole and why are we interested in something that most Americans have little knowledge of? Does the American society understand what parole is or do they assume that parolees fit the general criminal stereotype? Is this a system even something that is worth the time invested or are we “beating a dead horse” by continuing it? *
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