Explain and critically discuss the rules of international law applicable to the construction and operation of hydro-electric power projects on international watercourses. Your essay should make reference to one or more specific examples.
Crime is a punishable offence under the criminal law, involving a criminal wrong by one person against the other. The elements of a crime are mens rea (criminal intention) and actus reus (criminal act or omission). A crime is a public wrong prosecuted by the state.
Read More »The report considers the crime scene investigation requirements for the Arthur murder case. This case involves the death of a 42 year old man, Paul Smith, whose body was found at his home in suspicious circumstances.
Read More »he research topic selected for the research is “How Effective is Forensic Science in Aid of Crime Scene Investigation”. The aim of the present research is to study the effectiveness of forensic science techniques within the field of forensic investigation, and the acceptability of these techniques within the legal framework.
Read More »The report considers the crime scene investigation requirements for the Arthur murder case. This case involves the death of a 42 year old man, Paul Smith, whose body was found at his home in suspicious circumstances.
Read More »Transnational organised crime has come to be recognised as one of the most important issues for lawmakers and enforcement agencies for states around the world. The nature of the crimes is serious, with crimes like human trafficking, prostitution, among the crimes that are taking place in efficiently organised manner across the world.
Read More »The rights of victims within the Criminal Justice System (CJS) have evolved over a period of time. Criminology was predominantly focussed on the perpetrator experience and it is only in the 20th century that great strides were made to study the experience of the victim in context of the crime. Ultimately, the focus did move to the victim experience also and this has led to the evolution of rights or victims within the CJS and to the evolution of support systems for the benefit of victims.
Read More »Hate crime may typically be described as criminal behaviour that is motivated by a formulation of prejudice (Hutton, 2009, p.2). Such prejudices may be racial, religious, gender-specific, sexually oriented etc. The important factor in such crimes is that of ‘othering’. The perpetrator of the crime believes or attaches some pejorative value to the victim that may be based on the race of the victim or the religion that he belongs to. Having said that, hate crime is a term, whose definition is fraught with difficulties.
Read More »One of the important critical criminology perspective is the need for greater focus to be trained on corporate crimes and crimes committed by powerful people. Sykes (1974) pointed out that in the 1960s, there was a shift in sociological perspectives towards crime and criminal behaviour. It was felt that “people in positions of power had traditionally been analyzed in terms of bureaucratic roles aimed at the rational accomplishment of organizational objectives.
Read More »The relationship between mental health and crime is complex. The first complexity that arises in this issue is the definition of mental disorder. The legal definition of mental disorder is found in the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA 1983), s 1 which provides that mental disorder is ‘any disorder or disability of the mind’.
Read More »Chief Justice Dickson for the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Oakes ([1986] 1 S.C.R. 103, at para 29), stated that “An individual charged with a criminal offence faces grave social and personal consequences, including potential loss of physical liberty, subjection to social stigma and ostracism from the community as well as other social, psychological and economic harms”.
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