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2014
Crime and criminal law arguably constitute omnipresent topics in our society. Issues of criminal justice and criminal policy often feature prominently in political discussions and election campaigns. Citizens demand security from their governments and criminal law seems one suitable tool for the task of providing it.
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Crime and criminal law arguably constitute omnipresent topics in our society. Issues of criminal justice and criminal policy often feature prominently in political discussions and election campaigns. Citizens demand security from their governments and criminal law seems one suitable tool for the task of providing it.
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Medicine, Science and the Law, 1992
Automatic episodes of aggressive or violent behaviour may occur during or after an epileptic fit. Epileptic automatisms are regarded by the law as ‘insane automatisms’. A person who commits a crime during the course of a seizure is therefore legally insane and must be committed to a psychiatric hospital.
Klaus W. Lange, G. M. Paul
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Automatic episodes of aggressive or violent behaviour may occur during or after an epileptic fit. Epileptic automatisms are regarded by the law as ‘insane automatisms’. A person who commits a crime during the course of a seizure is therefore legally insane and must be committed to a psychiatric hospital.
Klaus W. Lange, G. M. Paul
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Rights and the Criminal Law [PDF]
Analysis, 1994 According to Judith Jarvis Thomson ([11, p. If.), there are many rights that we have against others prior to the law recognizing those rights. And if the law did not recognize them we should still have them. However, she says, the law does recognize many of them. Indeed, according to Thomson, the law actually assigns these rights to us. 'For example, I
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Nature Human Behaviour, 2020
Laws against wrongdoing may originate in justice intuitions that are part of universal human nature, according to the adaptationist theory of the origins of criminal law. This theory proposes that laws can be traced to neurocognitive mechanisms and ancestral selection pressures.
Daniel Sznycer, Carlton Patrick
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Laws against wrongdoing may originate in justice intuitions that are part of universal human nature, according to the adaptationist theory of the origins of criminal law. This theory proposes that laws can be traced to neurocognitive mechanisms and ancestral selection pressures.
Daniel Sznycer, Carlton Patrick
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Law, Medicine and Health Care, 1987
AIDS is spread by acts, not by casual exposure. As AIDS spreads further, some are urging that those acts, including sexual acts, be treated as crimes. Indeed, two AIDS carriers have already been charged with crimes for risking sexual transmission of AIDS to others. In one case, the United States Army has court-martialed an infected soldier, Pfc. Adrian
Martha A. Field, Kathleen M. Sullivan
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AIDS is spread by acts, not by casual exposure. As AIDS spreads further, some are urging that those acts, including sexual acts, be treated as crimes. Indeed, two AIDS carriers have already been charged with crimes for risking sexual transmission of AIDS to others. In one case, the United States Army has court-martialed an infected soldier, Pfc. Adrian
Martha A. Field, Kathleen M. Sullivan
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Paternalism and the Criminal Law
Journal of Applied Philosophy, 1985If it could be shown that law is, in some sense, a moral system the apparent contradiction between (moral) autonomy and (legal) heteronomy might be challenged. In order to prepare for such a challenge this paper questions the prevailing view that law is not in the business of enforcing morals.
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University of Toronto Law Journal, 2011
Alan Brudner has produced a rare and beautiful work of scholarship. Drawing inspiration from Hegel, he provides us with a comprehensive and novel theory of the criminal law. This review article has two parts. The first gives an overview of Brudner's theory.
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Alan Brudner has produced a rare and beautiful work of scholarship. Drawing inspiration from Hegel, he provides us with a comprehensive and novel theory of the criminal law. This review article has two parts. The first gives an overview of Brudner's theory.
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NARCOANALYSIS AND CRIMINAL LAW
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1954Criminal suspects, while under the influence of barbiturate drugs, may deliberately withhold information, persist in giving untruthful answers, or falsely confess to crimes they have not committed. Narcoanalysis is of doubtful value when used for the purpose of obtaining confessions to crimes.
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1983
Had he written nothing else on the law, Fitzjames Stephen would have been assured a place of prominence among English legal writers by his General View of the Criminal Law of England. Published in 1863, it was the first survey of the growth of the English criminal law which successfully combined the analytical and the historical methods of ...
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Had he written nothing else on the law, Fitzjames Stephen would have been assured a place of prominence among English legal writers by his General View of the Criminal Law of England. Published in 1863, it was the first survey of the growth of the English criminal law which successfully combined the analytical and the historical methods of ...
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Science and Engineering Ethics, 2004
This article considers issues concerning cases where the use of placebo is lawful or is not lawful under aspects of German criminal law. It will differentiate between cases of individual therapy and cases of supervised experiments within the scope of medical tests.
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This article considers issues concerning cases where the use of placebo is lawful or is not lawful under aspects of German criminal law. It will differentiate between cases of individual therapy and cases of supervised experiments within the scope of medical tests.
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