Assignment Question:
It can be difficult to define crime, when what constitutes a crime and evidentially what does not, can provoke continual disagreement between individuals across society.
Do you believe that some criminal offences that exist are more insignificant than others and why?
Your report must include a minimum of 2 relevant quotations, accurately referenced from 2 different sources that you actively engage with during the research process. These can be a mixture of textbooks, journal and website sources, and one of these can be from the Additional Reading section below.
Additional Information:
· Your assignment should be written in report format and follow the guidelines given in the Unit 2 reading.
· It should be between 1,500 and 2,000 words. You are allowed to go below or above this word count by no more than 10% without your mark being affected.
· Your report must include a minimum of 2 relevant quotations, accurately referenced from 2 different sources that you actively engage with during the research process.
· Please refer to the Referencing Guidelines from Unit 4. Your tutor will upload your assignment to Turnitin, the plagiarism detection website, so it is vital that you correctly reference any parts of your assignment that are not your original work.
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Think about putting up a fences to protect your backyard and property. Now think about enjoying having sex with your spouse. Now think about driving your cool new model Mercedes Benz in the highway. Reflect all these thoughts in the negative perspective where another person trespass private property or the fencing stood tall than the recommended size, a man or women sexually assaulted his/her friend or the act was without any consent, and a careless driver faulting traffic rules in the highway. Are all these offenses the same? From the biblical perspective, all crimes are equal before the eyes of the Lord. However, from the jury’s and attorneys’ perspective criminal offenses are not the same. They are classified based on the magnitude and volume. Nonetheless, sensible person could argued that all these acts amounts to the criminal offense and various doctrine such as “Ignorance of the law is no excuse” might apply equally on all of them.
It is important to understand how criminal offenses are classified in the modern criminal law since the crimes have evolved over time and become more complex. Generally speaking, a law students finds it awkward and absurd to take all the criminal offenses to be equal thus applying the same doctrines and criminal law. Traditional criminal law broadly classified most of the hardcore criminal law to be of the same type. However, in the modern criminal law, some criminal offense are more significant than others thus carrying different sentences depending on the magnitude and volume. According to “Mala in Se” criminal offenses carries varying definitions ranging from the offenses related to the common law to capital crimes. Until 20th century, all these crime had a clear meaning “Traditionally criminal law crimes” despite the different titles used to classified them………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….define crime………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
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