Criminology as a practice

4 important questions on Criminology as a practice

Why were the men in the Spanner case convicted?

  •   A counter-argument to their argument of consent.

Judge Rant, in a complex legal argument, decided that the activities in which they engaged fell outside the exceptions to the law of assault.

In law, you cannot, as a rule, consent to an assault. There are exceptions. Describe those exceptions:

  • You can consent to a medical practitioner touching and possibly injuring your body.

  • You can consent to an opponent hitting or injuring you in sports such as rugby or boxing.

  • You can consent to tattoos or piercings if they are for ornamental purposes.

Within the criminal law, a crime is conduct (or an act of omission) which, when:

It results in certain consequences, may lead to prosecution and punishment in a criminal court.
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Edwin Sutherland (1949) described the essential characteristic of crime as follows:

Crime is the behaviour which is prohibited by the state as an injury to the state and against which the state may react.

  • At least as last resort by punishment.  

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