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The cases in criminal law have been affected the world widely through their amazing and mesmerizing confessions. All these cases have generated an impact on the mind of the society and then on account of viewers who go through all this post-scenario drop scene. These cases not only create a feeling of horror in the minds of the people. Along with that, these cases open new ventures in the subject of criminal law that need detailed studying in the field of criminal law.
There are many cases in the field of the criminal law that gives a diversified look towards the circumstances, and it opens new vistas of the facts. If we look at the criminal cases in the history, various criminals were not intentionally criminals in the first go, and it was due to their mental illness or some deflected syndrome disorder that triggers their mind to commit the crime. While considering the two cases of entrapment and diminished capacity, they both are highly interlinked with each other as these two are regarded as the syndromes that can affect the mind in the quickest ways. In the diminished capacity, there is an effect of impairment in the mental stance of the person through which a crime is committed and in the case of entrapment the person unwillingly commit the crime due to the pressure that is being faced by that person, and a crime is committed.
There were many cases in the history which have left a significant mark on the society. According to a study conducted in 1988, which was published in 1994, there were homicides in the country (Dawson & Langan, 1994). This was due to the increasing rate of the murder cases in the country, out of which it was detected that due to mental illness of 4.3% of the people were suffering from mental illness due to which these heinous crimes were committed by the convicts, and they were later on profoundly ashamed of the fact about the crime which was conducted and this case also utilized in court, and they were induced with a lesser punishment and proper medical treatment.
References
Dawson, J. M., & Langan, P. A. (1994). Murder in families. Washington: US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics.
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