Political Science 3334E Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Actus Reus, Mens Rea
7 Nov 2020
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What are the disadvantages: the advantage of the legal concept is that is focused on providing the just base for the attribution of liability and therefore can be considered more adequate for criminal law. After a heavy storm the yacht of emanuel and his wife lauren sinks in the pacific. Lauren isn"t a good swimmer but finds a plank to which she can cling to, yet. He first tries to swim but soon gets exhausted and faced with the certainty of drowning unless he can find some support to keep himself afloat, he grabs onto the plank. Unfortunately, the plank is capable of supporting only one of them. Driven by desperation emanuel pushes lauren of the plank who after a brief struggle drowns. Analyse this example in terms of wrongdoing and blameworthiness. Compare how the so-called bipartite and the tripartite system of criminal liability would deal with this situation.
