Criminal Law

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This paper discusses the applications of criminal law. The paper explains basic concepts associated with criminal law, such as the voluntary act and mental state. With this knowledge, the paper examines how theft offenses are dealt with under criminal law. Several examples are provided.
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Introduction
The Voluntary Act
The Mental State
Non-MPC States of Mind
Strict Liability
Causation
Social Harm
Applied Knowledge
Trespassory Taking and Carrying Away of Property
Intent to Permanently Deprive

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"Every country regardless of its size and location has some form of criminal law existing. This law helps the country define punishable offenses and includes country's stand of such concepts as self-defense, necessity, insanity, negligence, and complicity. Criminal law is clearly written law in other words, it is a codified law. In the United States this codified law is known as the Model Penal Code which has helped in recent reforms of criminal codes in many major states. But laws in one state may not be similar to laws in another and this applies to criminal law as well. For example even though the Model Penal Code is followed by all states to shape their criminal law, the local version of law in one state is quite different from the same in another. This means that no two states in the country has similar criminal law. "

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