A Concise Intro To Logic
12th Edition
ISBN: 9781305147775
Author: Hurley
Publisher: Cengage
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The government will bring charges against the businesses for the strict liability crime and individuals injured by drinking the adulterated Magentum will bring tort suits.
The government will file assault and battery charges against the businesses.
The government will bring criminal assault charges against the businesses, push for punitive damages, and sue the business owners for torts.
Individuals will press charges against the businesses for attempted manslaughter.
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What issues must the court decide in this case?
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The Moral Rights approach is associated with the avoidance of interference with the fundamental rights of others.
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Negative rights are defined entirely in terms of the duties others have not to interfere with you. True False
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b)conversion.
c) nothing, because she did not have the mental state required to commit a crime.
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Cybercrime costs individual consumers millions of dollars a year and it costs businesses including banks and credit card companies a lot more. Paradoxically, when cyber criminals are caught and convicted, they are given jail time, but hardly ever pay restitution for their crimes.
Discuss:
1. How can people best protect themselves against cybercrime?
2. If you were a legislator, what measures would you take to reduce the incidence of cybercrime?
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