Criminal Liability and homicide
Essay - 2 pages - Criminal law
Committing homicide, which according to common law involves the ‘unlawful killing of a human being, caused by another human being', constitutes one of the most serious criminal offenses under the Offenses Against the Person Act 1861 (OAPA 186). The English law recognizes...
Financial Market Offenses and Crimes Against the State in the US
Course material - 6 pages - Economic politics
The French AMF is an independent public authority. It is made of two distinct bodies (the board and the enforcement committee), there is no hierarchy, board members cannot be members of the enforcement committee at the same time. The AMF is in charge of overseeing the protection of savings...
Punishment vs Rehabilitation for Criminals
Case study - 25 pages - Criminal law
In history, the citizen safety holds a fundamental priority in successive governments'policies protecting the basic human rights. Naturally, everyone is expected to respect the right calling for human safety at all places; walking along the street, relaxing at home or in public gatherings. For...
Correctional systems, in criminal justification
Case study - 3 pages - Other law subjects
Correctional systems, in criminal justification, are the various actions taken by the government agencies to protect innocent citizens from the lawbreakers (Siegel, 2013). The agencies are required to punish the offenders through lock up in prison, hard labor and community services....
Criminal liability of corporations: A counter-productive policy?
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Criminal liability is one of the central aspects of a democratic system, assuring that wrongdoers will be punished for acts committed against the society as a whole. Criminal law has an important role to play in regulating the behavior of individuals, ensuring they abide by...
Does prison do any good?
Essay - 2 pages - Criminal law
Anyone with criminal liability is exposed to legal consequences if he commits a crime, and there are various ways to execute punishments with specific laws and practices in each country. Prisons are part of the Criminal Justice System in addition to the Courts and Police. In the...
The AMF (Financial Markets Authority) and market abuse
Course material - 5 pages - Criminal law
Market abuses are also a criminal offenses. Criminal sanctions can be pronounced. They will be pronounced by judicial courts and not by the enforcement committee of AMF. They pronounced fines or jail sanctions. In the french monetary and financial law, there are executive...
Criminal Law
Thesis - 22 pages - Criminal law
What is an actus reus? An actus reus is more than just an act. It includes whatever circumstances and consequences that are required for liability for the offense in question which means that an actus reus is composed by all the elements of an offense other than the mental element....
Identity And Representation of Islam and Muslims in France in the Media
Case study - 3 pages - Journalism
In Japan, following an assault on a woman by a French tourist in the Minato district of Tokyo, several social media users claimed that the perpetrator of the attack was of "Maghrebi" origin. Despite a lack of evidence, several false claims were widely spread before the actual information was...
Consistence between the English Criminal Justice and Article 6 of the European Convention of Human Rights
Essay - 9 pages - International law
The United Kingdom was one of the original parties to the European Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR). States which contract into the ECHR are obliged to secure the enjoyment of Convention rights for their citizens. Sometimes positive actions may be required as creation,...
Illegal cattle farming - Implications and possible actions by the European commission and Brazilian government
Case study - 11 pages - Environment law
The Amazon Forest is the world's largest tropical rainforest and is a vital ecosystem with a wide range of flora and fauna (WWF, n.d.). However, the Amazon Forest is under threat due to various anthropogenic activities, including illegal cattle farming which is a significant driver of...
Practical case : Employment Law
Law case study - 6 pages - Labor law
1/ David has spent the last two decades working as a security officer for Big Gigs and Loud Sounds Ltd. His contract with Big Gigs and Loud Sounds Ltd expressly declares that he is ‘self-employed' and emphasizes at various points that the basis on which he receives his shifts to work for...
Tearing the tag off the mattress :Why over-criminalization is an escalating epidemic
Essay - 6 pages - Criminal law
Many law scholars and experts in the area of law and society can argue and disagree on many different issues. However, many can also agree on one thing and that is that the justice system suffers because of over criminalization. With outdated offenses, too many laws, and new crimes...
Current criminal justice
Thesis - 4 pages - Criminal law
The United States has been plagued with the issue of marijuana use for quite some time. The current policy set in place requires the use of many resources to deal with such a minor defiance. As of now, courts are backlogged because of the high number of arrests for minor offenses. Many...
Inside criminal law
Case study - 2 pages - Administrative law
There are four sources of American criminal law. The four sources have been codified. They have been put in writing and made accessible for all. The first of four sources is the U.S. Constitution. “The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land. As such, it is the basis of all...
Criminal case
Case study - 2 pages - Criminal law
A criminal case is referred to as court proceedings involving a trial against an individual who has committed a crime against an individual or the government. This paper elucidates a criminal case through an illustration of a case. This case is between Wardens, Maryland penitentiary...
Drug related offenses
Thesis - 14 pages - Criminal law
In modern societies it is easy to recognize that consuming drugs is an every day reality. It is not only taking heroin or marijuana, but also smoking, taking painkillers, having a coffee, a tea or excessive intake of alcohol on Saturday as a required “Saturday night” obligation. The...
Lower-class youth delinquency and incarceration in the United States
Essay - 5 pages - Criminal law
In 2016 in the United States, 11,745 youths were sentenced either to life with/without parole, or virtual life imprisonment (Sentencing Project, 2019). Thankfully, the Supreme Court barred the death sentence of youth offenders (Roper v. Simmons, 2005) even though life without parole and virtual...
Legal English
Course material - 13 pages - Other law subjects
This document contains a Legal English course. Many legal aspects are seen using the right English vocabulary. The English legal system is taken into consideration.
Global overview of the death penalty around the world and reasons to abolish it
Dissertation - 13 pages - Criminal law
As far back as the Old Testament, the death penalty has been established to punish offenses. Nowadays the death penalty, also called capital punishement, defines the execution of an offender who has committed an infringment.This sanction is applied by a recognized instituion after a trial....
Ethics in criminal justice administration analysis
Case study - 3 pages - Administrative law
Law enforcement officers are expected to live up to the highest professional and personal standards of life. With every passing day and just like all people; the faith, honor and integrity of a law enforcement official will be tested. Law enforcement officials are tempted with and can easily...
How conflict theory provides an insight to sociologist in to the process of criminal activity and behavior
Tutorials/exercises - 9 pages - Psychology
Conflict theory has developed throughout the course of the twentieth century as a principle theory for better understanding the development of criminal behavior. Although conflict theory directly links criminal behavior to the development of larger social inequities, research on...
The criminalization of prostitution
Thesis - 3 pages - Civil law
In current times, the body has become a medium for human expression. At a certain age, people can get pierced and tattoos that carry deeper meaning for them or are simply for aesthetic purposes. Cosmetic surgery is at its peak. For decades, people have been using their bodies to express their...
Criminal law - prison industrial complex - too complex? Criminal law - prison industrial complex - too complex? Criminal law - prison industrial complex - too complex?
Essay - 8 pages - Criminal law
A third party has entered the scene of the U.S. prison system: the private sector. A handful of for-profit Wall Street corporations are currently making millions of dollars from what some critics call “dungeons for dollars.” Such corporations claim they can build and run prisons more...
Effects of intensive policing tactics (like writing lots of UF-250s and summonses) on the community
Case study - 2 pages - Medical studies
According to researches, evidences consistently showing that, in the minds of police officers, as well as civilians, being black and male is inextricably accompanied with beliefs of criminality and dreadfulness leading to a habituated reaction of distrust and alarm that then results into...
Federal and States restrictions on abortion, with a focus on Oklahoma
Essay - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The year 2023 will mark half a century of legal abortion in the United States. However, Roe v Wade, the landmark abortion decision, may not survive as the Supreme Court might soon overturn it and enable states to criminalize abortion. The term "abortion" in this essay will refer to the...
Futures of corrections
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Legislative statutes in criminal law offer punishments for wrongdoing. Punishment for criminal offenses attempt to cause suffering to the criminal as well as deterrence from committing future crimes. The numerous types of sentencing and rationales within the...
Wrongful Convictions
Case study - 3 pages - Other law subjects
Miscarriage of Justice or wrongful conviction is probably today most biting headache for the legal and justice fraternity. With the discovery of wrongful conviction on the rise, the state and convicts engage in a diabolic tussle on actual innocence and to what extent the law serves its people....
Crimes against the intangible property
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Crimes against intellectual property are defined in the Brazilian penal code in title III of the special part, in Articles 184 to 196. They are: crimes against intellectual property, crimes against privilege of invention, crimes against industry and trade marks, crimes against unfair competition....
Opinion: the process of plea bargaining should be reformed in the American Justice System
Essay - 5 pages - Criminal law
According to the Department of Justice, more than 90% of Criminal Justice cases end in plea bargains (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2005). This statistic shows how important the process of plea bargaining is in the American Justice System. Clark Neily (2021) describes plea bargaining as "a...
