PSYC39H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Malice Aforethought, Murder, Assault
Document Summary
Psyc39 - lecture 11 - homicide, assault, partner & family violence. Criminal homicides: causing the death of another person w/ out legal justi cation or excuse, murder presence of malice aforethought, non-negligent manslaughter absence of malice aforethought (e. g. no harm intended, drunk driving and killed a pedestrian) 1st degree premeditated murder (aka. planned murder) 2nd degree not premeditated (situation arose the intention: negligent manslaughter involuntary manslaughter. Intentional in icting of bodily injury on another person or the attempt to in ict such ingest: often accompanied by use of deadly or dangers weapon. Demographic and other factors: race, a. a. disproportionately represented in the arrest and conviction data, social inequalities, gender, complexity of racial/ethnic categories, males 90% for murder arrest rates, statistics historically disregarded gender continuum. Females - 10% for murder arrest rates: age, age of which testosterone lvls. are the highest.
