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This 3 page paper distinguishes how an individual can be found not culpable for a criminal act he or she has committed. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Justification, Excuse, Insanity in Criminal Justice
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For an act to be punished as a criminal offense it has to not only be against a specified law but the
individual that commits that act has to be culpable. There are three ways that an individual that has been proven to have committed a criminal act can escape punishment
for that commission. The individual can be proven to have been justified in committing the act. They can be proven to have had a viable excuse for having
committed the act. They can be found innocent by reason of insanity. When an act is criminal, i.e. actus reus, it
is assumed that there will be punishment (Kinscherff, 2010). If either of the three findings noted above is in play, however, that will not be the case. While
either a finding of justification or excuse has a similar outcome, there is an important distinction in the criminal justice system between these two.
Justification in the criminal justice sense is a sort of societal approval of the reason the act was committed. If a person kills another person in an
act of self defense, for example, their action is considered justified (Kinscherff, 2010). A person is considered to have had an excuse for a murder when they commit that
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