how laws are applied due to circumstances Flashcards

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how can moral panic impact how the law is applied?

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can lead to harsher sentences to teach other individuals a lesson and deter others

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what typification’s can affect arrests and sentences?

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  • social class
  • age
  • ethnicity
  • attitudes towards officers
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what is the age of criminal responsibility?

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aged 10 in England

youth courts hear cases involving individuals aged 10-17 years

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what are the 3 defences contained in the 1957 homicide act?

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. diminished responsibility
. loss of control
. automatism

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what is diminished responsibility?
-3 defences

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mental health reducing (reduced) rational judgement

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what is loss of control?
-3 defences

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partial defence that may reduce the offence to manslaughter.

eg. defendant was provoked to act

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what is automatism?
- 3 defences

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defendant must have consciously chose to commit the crime

if they show it was involuntary they can plead the defence of automatism

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example of when an individual could plead automatism?

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. head injury
. PTSD
. sleep walking

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