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Homicides of pregnant female sex workers in three sub‐Saharan African countries
International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
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An Age of Complexity: Children and Criminal Responsibility in Law [PDF]
Youth Justice, 2013 This article examines the age of criminal responsibility in law. It argues that the fair imputation of criminal responsibility requires understanding of a number of interlinked concepts, including knowledge of wrongfulness, understanding of criminality ...
McDiarmid, Claire
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, 2007 Abstract This book is concerned with the proper nature and scope of criminal responsibility. The book takes a philosophical rather than a doctrinal approach to this question: it is concerned with how the best understanding of criminal responsibility should shape the law, not with the law as it actually is. The general account of criminal
Tadros, Victor.
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In Search of Criminal Responsibility: Ideas, Interests, and Institutions
, 2016 Through a combined philosophical, historical, and socio-legal methodology, this volume investigates the changing nature of criminal responsibility in English law from the mid-18th Century to the early 21st Century, arguing that ideas of character ...
Nicola Lacey
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Individual Criminal Responsibility
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015The paper analyses the case-law of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) with regard to individual criminal responsibility. After some brief considerations on Article 6 (1) of the ICTR Statute (which lists several modes of individual criminal liability), we assess the Tribunal’s approaches towards direct commission and participation in ...
Kai Ambos, Stefanie Bock
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The misjudgment of criminal responsibility
Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 2018AbstractGenerally, a criminal statute must consist of two essential elements: a description of the forbidden act (actus reus) and a designation of a guilty mental state (mens rea). For a crime to be committed, an individual must commit the forbidden act with the culpable mental state.
Robert A, Beattey, Mark R, Fondacaro
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Alcohol and Criminal Responsibility
Journal of Forensic Sciences, 1976Abstract The tradition of the law has long frowned on criminal behavior performed in association with alcohol intake; courts have been most hesitant to provide any exculpation for drug and alcohol intake. The hostility of courts to a defense of intoxication is shown in State v. Noel [1].
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Duress and Criminal Responsibility
Law and Philosophy, 1991While the plea of duress is generally accepted as a defense against criminal prosecution, the reasons why it exonerates are subject to dispute and disagreement. Duress is not easily recognizable as either an excusing or justifying condition. Additionally, duress is generally not permitted as a defense against criminal homicide, though some American ...
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