Unit 3 Law review- Purposes of Criminal Law- Exists to label wrongful behaviour‚ to identify violations and impose sanctions. Labelling ‚ identifying‚ and sanctioning wrongful behaviours achieves two things: retribution and the protection of society. Actus Reus: The guilty act. To prove actus reus‚ the Crown would have to demonstrate that a) there was no consent‚ b) force was applied. Mens Rea: The guilty mind. Done with criminal intent or knowledge that what he/she did was against the law. Objective-If
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Royal 1st. What was the common law before the making of the Act. 2nd. What was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide. 3rd. What remedy Parliament resolved and appointed to cure the disease. 4th. The true reason of the remedy; and then the function of the judge is to make such construction as shall supress the mischief and advance the remedy. When faced with a piece of legislation‚ the courts are required to interpret its meaning so that they can apply it to the
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MENS REA Mens Rea is described as "A guilty mind; a guilty or wrongful purpose; a criminal intent; Guilty knowledge and willfulness". [2] In criminal law it is the basic principle that a crime consists of a mental element and a physical element. A person’s awareness of the fact that his or her conduct is criminal is the mental element‚ and actus reus’ (the act itself) is the physical element. The concept of Mens Rea started its development in the 1600s in England when judges started to say that
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Criminal Law January 3‚ 2010 Facts – Little Louie 1. Unemployed 2. Date Wild Wanda 3. Plans with Billy Bad Boy and Vinnie Bagadonuts to rob a bank. 4. Know a gun collector named Smith 5. Breaks into Smith’s house 6. Breaks into the gun locker and steals couple of handguns‚ saw-off shotgun‚ and automatic weapons. 7. Robs the bank 8. In a shootout with the armed guard during this a bank teller and police officer is shot. 9. Run from the police officers
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The American Colonies‚ in the eighteenth century‚ were just beginning to become a more democratic society. With immigrants coming from all over Europe seeking religious refuge and economic profits‚ the Great Awakening‚ and the Zenger case‚ the colonies were becoming more and more democratic with each passing year. The population in the American Colonies had a tenfold increase between 1701 and 1775. More than one million people had come across the ocean to join the other colonists. Newcomers did
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Law 12 2012/2013 Criminal Quiz Summary Notes CRIMINAL LAW I know it’s illegal‚ but is it a crime? Many things are illegal: jay-walking‚ speeding‚ or setting up a clothes line outside to dry your laundry (in West Vancouver)‚ but they aren’t necessarily crimes. What then makes something a crime? Criminal Law Criminal law deals with offences committed against society (often these appear to be against individuals). The purpose of criminal law is to keep order in society and deter the committing
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Taylor Pottschmidt Criminal Justice Paper #2 Almost everything we do is governed by some set of rules. There are rules for games‚ for social clubs‚ for the sports people play and for adults in the workplace. There are also rules governed by a moral compass within a person that play an important role in telling us what we should and should not do. However‚ some rules that are made by the state or the courts are called "laws". Laws resemble our moral compass because they are designed to control the
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The International Criminal Court and the United States of America Ee Wenyang‚ Jonathan S8811568F I. Introduction The United States of America has a long history of support for international criminal justice that can be traced from the Nürnberg War Crimes Trial through to the International Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia (“ICTY”) and Rwanda (“ICTR”).[1] Towards the close of the century‚ the United States proved itself as an ardent supporter for the creation of a
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W. E. B. DuBois invites all readers‚ regardless of ethnic background‚ to consider his proposition (quoted in your Lecture Notes) that the "color-line" will constitute the "problem of the Twentieth Century." By the way‚ you have just passed another turn of centuries‚ from the 20th to the 21st. From your "modern" perspective‚ do you feel that DuBois’s statement is still valid today? Do you find that DuBois was correct in his prediction that issues of "race" and "ethnicity" would be at the center of
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Criminal Law Year 11 Legal Studies Term 2 – 2015 What is Criminal? Criminal conduct is behaviour that the law deems to be wrongful. Criminal law covers the acts and omissions that most people in society consider harmful. As well as causing harm to a victim‚ a crime is also regarded as harming the society as a whole. Behaviour that breaks one of these criminal rules is an offence. Sources of Criminal Law Criminal law is the responsibility of the States. The Commonwealth can enact
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