Essays on Self-Defence

In this paper, we will explore the psychological impacts of two human-made disasters. One that happened during the First World War, and the other one is a recent terrorist attack in Paris, in 2015. The Lusitania Disaster was an attack from the German army to a British ship liner coming from New York to Liverpool, UK. The terrorist attack in Paris however was not a war attack, so people were not expecting anything as such. However, it can be argued that we are on a war today, that begun by several attacks of radical Islamic groups against the West. ...

Usage of Nuclear Weapons in Legal Way Under Humanitarian Law

The legality of the usage of the nuclear weapons is the question of the fierce debate lasting for years. In fact, the usage of nuclear weapons from the political or economical concerns poses the risks to the living of the human. In this regard, the introduction of this type of weapon is deliberately controlled for the prevention of the possible harm to the life of the human on earth. In order to determine the legality of the usage of nuclear weapons, the author suggest to dwell on its notion provided in the current humanitarian legislation. The nuclear weapon represents ...

The stand your ground law became a hotly debated topic due to the case that involved Trayvon Martin and revolved around the shooting down of an unarmed 17-year-old by a watchman. The shooting occurred in 2012 and since then there have been suggestions to make laws that protect citizens, this was amidst the hotly contested nationwide debate on gun control. The trial sparked the law, and the facts were crucial as Zimmerman claimed to act in his defense as Treyvon looked suspicious. This led to a series of protests and rallies in anger against the killings before his burial ( ...

Criminal Liability of Joe

Joe is liable for possession, supply, and permitting premises to be used for the supply of controlled drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The law provides that it is “unlawful for a person to have a controlled drug in his possession”. Joe is a user of illegal drugs. Any controlled drugs found on his person and place of residence renders him liable for possession. When Karla overdosed, Joe was in possession of the heroin that Karla injected on herself. It is also unlawful for any individual “to supply or offer to supply a controlled drug to another”. ...

The blueprint of murder has more criminality in it than the actual execution. Some murders are very impetuously carried out, often without much prior planning. In several cases murders are necessitated by considerations of self-defence, even in civil society. But murders that are a product of deliberation and stratagem cannot be seen at dichotomous levels of actual and attempted in retributive law. These should certainly be treated on a synonymous basis. Any attempt to take life is punishable unless there are rare extenuating circumstances, and a contemplated crime is not one shade different from an actual one. The fact ...

The New York Secure Ammunition & Firearms Enforcement Act commonly known as the NY SAFE ACT is a gun control law in the city of New York State Legislature & was signed by the Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo on 15th January 2013. This legislation as written in reaction to the shooting, done at the Sandy Hook Elementary School of Connecticut. It states that If in case the broad prohibitions against any of the weapons are invalidated by the courts, then the NYC safe act contains a provision of severability, regulations related to a number of firearms. Few of the provisions ...

What are the strengths and weaknesses of this response?

Violence in our modern-day society can take a myriad of forms, but its basic definition always includes an unjust or unwarranted exertion of force or power. Since the recent history of domestic violence provides a clear illustration of the social construction of the field of violence, it will serve as a tool to demonstrate the problematic nature of the system of criminal laws when applied to crimes of violence. This essay is designed to outline the strengths and weaknesses of the criminal system’s response to domestic violence in Australia. The first part of the paper provides information essential to the understanding ...

Introduction

Homicide is defined as the act in, which a person kills another person. There have been times when people have compared homicide with murder. This is the reason that has caused many researchers in the society to try to investigate the difference between the two terms. Some of the findings that came out were that homicide is much more than just plain murder. The truth is that murder can be said to be another form of the homicide, which is stated to be in the criminal homicide characteristics. The other types of homicide can be stated to be capital murder, ...

Statistics show that despite the federal government’s spending close to one billion dollars a year to stem crime in the United States of America and the criminal justice system’s best of efforts to arrest it, gun violence still takes approximately 30,000 lives a year and injures another 75,000 if the reports from the Census Bureau and the Federal Bureau of Investigations are anything to go by. It does not help that the same is a regularly debated and dicey political issue that is ironically most common in poor urban areas frequently associated with gang violence, on most occasions ...

Abstract

Use and possession of firearms by civilians has come under a lot of controversy and scrutiny owing to the increasingly frequent incidents of mass murders and shootings by civilians with personal or illicitly acquired firearms. This has led to a ban of firearms in the United States. This essay discusses this issue and provides arguments against this administrative ban on firearms, suggesting how allowing use of firearms may be useful socially.

Firearms should not Become Illegal

Introduction On April 14, 2010 the United States administration took a step towards banning an elaborate list of fire arms for civilians that included an array of semi-automatic and heavy ...

X will not be successful in applying the defence of neccessity. In criminal law, necessity is not primea facie a criminal defence. The defence, however, does apply in certain circumstances as an area of reform in the law. The land mark case, R v Dudley and Stephen (1884) 14 QBD 273 gives an example of a scenario when the defence can apply, even though it was contravacial. Looking at the scenario, the defence will not apply to X because he had all the time to dispose of the firearm, but even if he had taken it to protect his life he ...

A gunman killed six people Tucson, Arizona and in a similar incident, 12 people died after a shooting in Colorado. This is in addition to multiple school shootings, which captured the headlines in the country, and point to even bigger underlying problems related to gun ownership laws, punishment laws, gang culture and partisan politics. The gun-related murders reach as high as 16,000 annually, with more than five million crimes involving guns (Rogers 1). The self-defence and constitutionally enshrined rights to own crimes have for centuries been pitted against the need to create a gun-less society, which is thought to be multiply ...

Justifications and Excuses

Justifications are statements explaining some actions or belief. These statements make something to be comprehensible by the way they describe relevant structure or operations. The aim of justification is to show that an action is reasonable or necessary (Amy & Herdman, 2009). Excuses are explanations, which are offered to justify or to obtain forgiveness. They do not claim the conduct, which is in question to be justified. However, excuses suggest that the perpetrator, at the time of the act was suffering under some circumstances. This is aimed at making the actor not to be legally responsible for his or her ...

What principles with respect to women battering and self-defense have been established in Lavallee's case?

Most of the case law involving female offenders depends on the Supreme Court of Canada's verdict in Lavallee, which accepted proof that an offender had encountered violence elicited by the victim, Battered Woman Syndrome (BWS)1, as applicable to the problem of self-defense. In the Lavallee case2, proof was disclosed demonstrating that the offender had been exposed to years of abuse owing to the victim, and she was acquitted of murder because she had acted in self-defense. Battered women constitute one of the most marginalized groupings in the social order. Their relationship incidents occasionally put these individuals into ...