CRIM 1650 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Partial Defence, Criminal Law, Actus Reus

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: cladiuocalagari

Document Summary

Criminology is the study of crime and criminal behaviour, which are defined by reference to criminal law. Criminal law is the entire set of principals, procedures, and rules established by the government through the courts and criminal legislation in order to ensure public safety. It includes definition of crimes, criminal responsibility, and punishments and defences to criminal charges. Prohibition is a law forbidding a specific act. The crime is a violation of public order that was called once the king"s peace . In the western history, state punishment was used to imprison persons for private depts. While the offences against the public were left for the private owners or the victims and their families to deal with it. Factors behind the creation of the new criminal law: the emergence of the government as a meaningful source of central authority. (instead of the church), the growth of professional state police services, the ever-increasing complexity of social interactions.