Legal Impossibility: When Actors Intent To Commit Crime

"Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal.” Yes, I agree to this quote by Samuel Johnson. One knows when the action they are performing or is about to perform, is either legal or illegal. For example, if someone has in their mind that they are about to go to a convenience store to be childish or try to fit in with their crew and steal something so simple, such as a fifty cent bag of chips and a quarter drink, they know that that is a criminal act and consequences are going to follow after. If raised well, one knows right from wrong and their conscience will bother them, due to the wrong they have done. Depending on one’s situation dealing with stealing, if one is trying to fend for their selves or family, it may be acceptable in one’s eye, but

Commercial impracticability. UCC can enforce commercial impracticability rule when the seller cannot deliver goods within agreement as per contract. Commercial impracticability may also be enforceable when the seller faces unexpected events. These events must affect the contract directly (Melvin, 2011, p. 193).

D: The client has interest with living in an Oxford house after his release from PWC ADC. The client requested additionally information about Oxford houses and their locations. The client does not want to live in the same area as his friends. Additionally, the client requested information about attending NOVA because he received his GED this week. The client stated that if he was released today that he does not know if he would violate his probation. The client stated that his biggest issue is “my criminal thinking”.

24 (1) Every one who, having an intent to commit an offence, does or omits to do anything for the purpose of carrying out the intention is guilty of an attempt to commit the offence whether or not it was possible under the circumstances to commit the offence. (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46 from Laws Website)

One specific theory, social control theory focuses on the idea that everyone is presented with the chance to break the law. This theory explains that people typically do not break the law because they have self-control, which is influenced by internal and external forces. Another reason for following laws is that some people have a commitment to conformity. People that feel this way have a true understanding of reasons to uphold the law. Their instinct is to avoid any behavior that can result in trouble, this theory emphasizes that the stronger commitment a person has to social institutions the less likely they are to commit a crime. When people do not have commitments they can break the law without losing

A theory is an explanation of why or how things are related to each other (Bohm & Vogel, 2011). Additionally, a theory is defined as a plausible or scientifically acceptable principle, or a body of principles, offered to explain phenomena (Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 2017). Furthermore, crime theories examine and attempt to identify relationships among humans, criminal behavior, and specific factors such as biological factors, psychological factors, sociological factors, and economic factors (Bohm & Vogel, 2011). Since we have defined a theory, let us further discuss how theories are created beginning with the components of a theory.

In this essay, I will describe the elements of a criminal act, address the law of factual impossibility, the law of legal impossibility, and distinguish whether the alleged crime in the scenario is a complete but imperfect attempt or an incomplete attempt. I will address the ethical or moralistic concerns associated with allowing a criminal defendant to avoid criminal responsibility by successfully asserting a legal defense such as impossibility. The court was clearly wrong to dismiss the charge against Jack of attempted murder of Bert.

Every theory of crime has at least 2-3 meta-theoretical levels above it. The fundamental issues are usually addressed at the approach level, and are often called the assumptions, or starting points, of a theory, although the term "assumptions" more strictly refers to the background or domain boundaries one can draw generalizations about. Above the approach level is the Perspective level, the largest unit of agreement within a scientific community, and in fact, the names for the scientific disciplines. Perspectives are sometimes called paradigms or viewpoints, although some people use the term paradigm to refer to untestable ideologies such as: (1) rational choice; (2) pathogenesis; (3) labeling;

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In the scenario the night watchman was murdered because he was a witness to the crime. Therefore, he could identify everyone who was at the scene. I feel that during his checks he found that the lock to the back door of the warehouse had been kicked open. Unfortunately, he didn’t know that there were people still in the warehouse. Therefore, he went in to check on the building as well as to see what was going on and found the criminals beating the first victim Robert “Capper” McWilliams. Upon seeing this he realized that he needed help and tried to leave but had been seen by the offenders and was shot. Therefore, there would be no witness to this crime that may be able to identify the suspects.

After an extensive amount of research I have done on Parricide I now know what exactly parricide is and the motives behind the crime. After doing the research and seeing how many crimes happen in where an adolescent or adult commits any kind of parricide either being patricide or matricide or any of the other types. It is hard for me to say that I did not know that the killing of your parents or loved ones had a category and especially knowing know how far back in time it goes. I always thought that it was just categorized as a murder, which it is murder but it is prioritized because the person that is usually doing the crime is a child between the ages of 12-18, and the victims are the parents. It is strange to know that a kid of that age is capably of actually taking a person’s life let alone killing one of his or her parents. It was interesting to find out how some people just like me did not know what parricide was. And how some experts have their opinions towards the adolescents or adults that commit the crime some will try to defend the kid by trying to say that the kid motive to commit the crime was to get away from the person doing the harm and at the time the only way the kid new how to get rid of the problem was to kill the one doing the harm.

Many theories of crime are macro theories, which are used to explain crime based on a large group of people or society. While macro theories are the predominant type of theory used to explain crime, there are also a variety of “individual”, or micro, factors which are equally important. Two such individual factors s are maternal cigarette smoking (MCS) and cognitive ability, or Intelligence Quotient (IQ).

Crime is an act against the law where the consequence of conviction by a court is punishment is a serious one such as imprisonment. The Oxford English Dictionary states that crime is: - “An act punishable by law, as being forbidden by statute or injurious to the public welfare…An evil or injurious act; an offence, a sin”. The government usually set laws that the people must follow, punishment is given for those who lighten those laws. The legal or criminal justice system applies the law and punishes those who break it. Crime is described by Blackburn (1993; p.5) ‘acts attracting legal punishment […] offences against the community’. There is a social shame associate with crime. It is important to note that all breaches of the law are not criminal such as civil offenses and breach of contract. The word ‘crime’ is reserved for the offences that cause harm or injury to the public, individuals or the state. Social, political, financial and emotional conditions influence the definition of crime and how the law is useful. These changes may ban or allow behaviour. The data on crime will have to take this reason into account.

The true definition of intention is not very clear, as there are different definitions by different courts. The term ‘intention’ in criminal law has been defined as direct intention whereby a consequence is intended and desired by the defendant, and indirect (oblique) intentionwhereby the defendant can foresee a virtual certainty.Many seriouscrimes require the proof of intention or recklessness on the part of defendant, and in criminal proceedings, the court or jury must decide whether the accused has the intention or the ability to foresee the result of his actions by reference to all circumstances of the case. Thus, ‘intention’ can be classified as particular, general and

Crime is a socially constructed phenomenon. It is not static but dynamic and is defined into existence. It changes over time and place. For example, early definitions of crime such as classicism defined individuals as rational, free and responsible for their own actions. The emergence of positivism was an attempt to bring scientific methodology to criminology. Positivists believe in objectively quantifying cause and effect. In the early twentieth century a sociological lens was applied. Functionalist sociologists such as Durkheim argued that crime had a positive function for society by reinforcing societal norms and values (Ziyanak and Williams 2014). Anomie and strain theory proposed later by Robert Merton examined how poorer classes experienced frustration through lack of opportunities leading to strain. There are many others including labelling, control and cultural deviance, however; this shows that our understanding of criminology is not static and like crime itself it changes over time and place.