SOME CRIMINAL PROCEDURAL ASPECTS OF THE INSTITUTE OF CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY

Cultural Aspects of Criminal Responsibility

Criminal Responsibility

are not always evident to the man in the street and are particularly easy to neglect when involved in the highly sensational atmosphere of a murder trial; this is of course particularly so if the details are horrific or sexual or both and if a plea of insanity is raised in defence. It may therefore be helpful to re-state the points at issue. The first point is that lawyers and doctors talk in d...

Criminal Responsibility

the definition of a crime has never yet been clearly made. A crime has been described as a result of human conduct, which it is the policy of the governing power in the state to prevent. Usually it is followed by a punishment , but this was not always so. In early years, suffering was imposed on the wrongdoer, and in Roman times expiation was necessary to placate the offended gods. That which d...

The Age of Criminal Responsibility

ISSN 0817-8542 ISBN 0 642 241 98 8 One of the most difficult areas of criminal justice policy lies in providing appropriate legal mechanisms to reflect the transition from the age of childhood innocence through to maturity and full responsibility under the criminal law. Along with specialised institutions such as Children’s Courts and juvenile detention centres, specific legal rules have been d...

Criminal Aspects on Cryonics

Eternity is a human basic instinct so he does his best for it. Cryonics is a hypnotically way for life extension via cooling patient body with purpose of recovering and curing in future. This method raised various criminal problems which have roots in patient status of life or death. The author firstly believes that doing cryonic does not amount to death, murder or inflicting bodily harm; so pe...