Consent to bodily harm and criminal law
Thesis - 5 pages - Criminal law
In R v Barnes [2005] 1 WLR Lord Woolf CJ considered the decision of the House of Lords in R v Brown [1994] AC 212 and the Court of Appeal in R v Dica [2004] QB 1257 and decided that it is clear that the rule and the exceptions to the rule that a person cannot consent to his being caused actual...
The modus operandi and the national and international impact of a particular Japanese criminal organized group: the Yakuza
Case study - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Yakuza are Japanese organized crime groups represented by several syndicates in the whole country. They also have got many networks in the world especially in the Pacific zone, The United States as well as in Germany. The modern Yakuza derived from two distinct formations: the bakuto involved in...
The Burden of Proof
Course material - 1 pages - Civil law
The burden of proof in civil and criminal cases is the obligation to provide evidence validating or disputing a certain occurrence. It is an obligation to proof what has been alleged in judicial proceedings. The burden of proof differs in criminal and civil cases whereby in...
Bias against blacks and hispanics in the criminal justice system
Essay - 5 pages - Other law subjects
Is there a racial bias in America's criminal justice system? This seems like a fairly straightforward yes or no question, yet it has caused heated debate between researchers throughout the second half of this century. Recently the debate has intensified as several states move to enact a...
Criminal law : consent
Essay - 4 pages - European law
In criminal law, there exists a defense of consent. Within this defense, there is a general rule that a person cannot consent to his being caused actual bodily harm. No one can ever lawfully consent to his own death-R v Young . This opens the debate on issues related to euthanasia,...
Fact and fiction as it relates to criminal trials
Case study - 2 pages - Administrative law
Humans feed on entertainment drama. We love it and sometimes we cannot seem to get enough of it. Some of us watch television and film and get a taste of our inner most dreams, our goals, of our ambitions, or to escape reality and unwind. Television shows and movies about crime really get us...
Criminal justice trends evaluation
Case study - 4 pages - Administrative law
E-scams, child pornography, identity theft, cyber stalking and bullying, spamming, Malware, fraud, and computer hacking are types of internet crimes. These crimes are certainly on the rise. The general public relies heavily on technology, resorting to pen and paper is just so primitive; all of...
Gender, Ethnicity, and Culture
Essay - 4 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
'We are living in a modern world where a diverse American society is faced with both the benefits and challenges of diversity. Cultural diversity facilitates recognition of other cultures and frames connections between different cultures. At the same time, cultural diversity leads to...
Criminal justice workplace observation paper
Case study - 2 pages - Administrative law
The Albany Police Department protects and serves our city with the use of both new and traditional forms of policing. The mission statement of the Albany Police Department is “to provide the safest environment for our residents to live in, commuters to work in, and our visitors to stay...
Community-Based Policing
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
With the rising crime rates, and the impact they have on the ability of our criminal justice personnel to stem the tide, criminal justice agencies have realized the need to return to their community roots if they are to do anything about crime and disorder in the communities. This...
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...
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...
Criminal Law - Homicide
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
When a human being is killed by another human being, the act is known as a homicide. The two main types of homicides are murder and manslaughter with the difference being that manslaughter is a less serious offence than murder (Slapper & Kelly 1999). The English legal system is a system of law...
Criminal justice
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Criminology is a branch of Law which refers to cases that do with crime. Any crime has its doer and its victim. As such justice has to be done to the affected persons. It is here where law comes in. To defend both sides if possible as it seeks the truth and do justice (Croall,2004). The Need...
Evolution of Corrections: From Punishment to Rehabilitation in the United States
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
How punishment in the U.S. has been reevaluated as time goes by is incredible. Criminal justice, which began focusing on retribution and death sentences and later changed to reformatory programs that emphasize rehabilitation and community integration, has undergone significant...
What is the highest judicial authority in France and how important is it?
Essay - 2 pages - Civil law
The court of cassation is the highest court in France. It hears appeals from decisions of the lower courts, and reviews the constitutionality of laws. Moreover, in application of the (article L4111-1 of the Code de l'organisation judiciaire), there is, for the whole Republic, only one Cour de...
President Obama Did Not Have Legal Authority to Order Operation Geronimo
Case study - 2 pages - Political science
President Obama, by order of May 2, 2011, started the secret military operation Geronimo; it was the end of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Indeed, the departure of the founder and the leader of al-Qaeda was an undoubted triumph in the War on Terrorism; however, grave legal problems...
R v. Albert William Grannon (2019) and R v. Claire Colebourn (2019) - Comparative study
Law case - 2 pages - Criminal law
Both R v Albert William Grannon and R v Claire Colebourne (2019) concern homicides involving children, and in both cases, it is a family member who has been found guilty for the deaths. You have to compare and contrast the sentencing remarks handed down in each case.
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...
Franchising - published: 10/11/2014
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
A crime is any act that is prohibited, prosecuted and punishable by criminal law (Stuart, 2001, p. 6). The modern criminologists have adopted this definition. Traditional criminologists defined crime as the violation of criminal laws, an action which is liable for summoning and...
The Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on Racial Bias in the U.S. Courts System
Dissertation - 13 pages - Law's history and philosophy
This research aims to discover the relationship between social and economic conditions involved in making racial bias more evident within the American court system. This theory relies heavily on the existing theory of social stratification—"winners' school" that emphasizes the role of...
Comparative Criminal Law: comparison between the French and the American system by studying Brenton Butler case
Essay - 2 pages - International law
In this document, we present the Brenton Butler case, where Mary Ann Stephens, who was a holiday, is shot in the head in front of her husband. Later, Brenton Butler, a 15 year old Black citizen, was arrested just because he was in a street near the place of crime and it was confirmed that he was...
The structure of the International Criminal Court
Worksheets - 2 pages - International law
The ICC is composed of four organs: the Presidency, the Judicial Divisions, the Office of Prosecutor and the Registry. First of all, it is interesting to point out the functions of the Assembly of States Parties, the only non-judicial organ where States Parties can express themselves, as their...
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - International relations
This year, December 10, 2007 is a day of many important deadlines. Not only is it the day the independence of Kosovo is said to be decided, but it is also the date by which the handover of Ratko Mladic to the ICTY is supposed to occur. Both of these could prove to be fateful days in the history...
Controlling organized crime paper
Case study - 3 pages - Journalism
Although the amount of information available to investigators on organized crime has increased due to the increasing number of crime activities, crime has also evolved significantly,and the law enforcement units have a large amount of information to keep. The significant collection of information...
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...
India's daughter - Leslee Udwin - How was this crime interpreted by the public opinion?
Essay - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The rapists' point of view is clear: this girl shouldn't have gone outside alone, and at night. Their rape act was like a punishment of this unaware attitude of Jyoti for them. The only responsible person of the rape concerns the victim: leaving at night around 9 o'clock is like...
Non-Appearance by a State Compatible with the Adversarial Principle: an Adversarial Procedure Reinstated by the Court
Essay - 5 pages - International law
Since the occupation of Crimea in February 2014, the Russian Federation has been violating the prohibition on the use of force under international law in Article 2(4) of the UN Charter with respect to Ukraine. Moreover, it was already an armed attack within the meaning of Article 51 of the...
Witnesses and Data Messages
Law case study - 3 pages - Criminal law
In terms of section 15 of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 25 of 2002 ('ECTA') the legal requirements for the admissibility and weight of data messages are stipulated by the Act. The term 'data message' means data generated, sent, received or stored by...
Haiti briefing note and building mission solution : state of the country and developments of solutions
Case study - 7 pages - Political science
In October 2015, elections were deferred indefinitely due to allegations of fraud. The new elections were further postponed due to Hurricane Matthew and finally took place in November 2016, Jovenel Moïse won 56% of the vote. There was a holding of an electoral tribunal to conduct a verification...
