CCJ-2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Statutory Law, Constitutional Law, Child Support

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A law is a rule that governs conduct. Purpose of laws: maintain order, regulate human interactions, enforce moral beliefs, promote social change, address wrongdoings. The rule of law: everyone is subject to these laws and they should be applied equally, politicians and decisions makers also must know these laws and these laws also apply equally to everyone in this country. Criminal laws specify which behaviors are not acceptable and specifies punishments for violations: what is not acceptable when there are punishments. Chapter 4: criminal law: knowing: intention of hitting someone and know what you were doing, reckless: engaging in reckless behavior to producing harm, negligent: engaging in behavior you should have known that will produce a crime. Concurrence: taken together, a person must have willingly and purposefully committed an act that violated a law. Exception to men"s rea: strict liability laws: crimes that don"t have a guilty mind requirement. You did it therefor you get a ticket for speeding.

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