Bodily harm

What is the right balance of the fetuses “rights” and the mother’s rights of bodily integrity? Many would say the mother has sole authority to the decisions concerning her unborn fetus. Controversial issues arise once the fetus may be in potential danger. Finding the accommodating balance is both difficult and challenging. Does the mother or the state have authority to make decisions concerning the fetus? This question is very difficult and needs evaluation and analyzing. Many individuals lean…

put others at risk by enabling criminals. This statement is proven through recent cases the australian court has punished unfairly. Offences like; ‘Aggravated indecent assault’, ‘possession of a prohibited drug’, and ‘assault occasioning actual bodily harm’ which will be discussed further in this essay. ‘Aggravated indecent assault’ is an offence that is commited by any person who assaults another person out of aggression and, at the time of, or immediatley before or after the assault, commits…

The defendant should be found not guilty on the theory of self-defense. Self-defense is the use of force to protect yourself, your home or property, or the people you care about. Self-defense is acceptable when the necessity is there, the problem exists “right now”, and when it’s for prevention of crimes, such as kidnapping, rape, or robbery. The defendant, Peggy Bundy, used self-defense to protect not only herself, but her two children, from the hands of her lover/abuser, Mr. Jefferson Darcy.…

In regards to consent, there exists an implied consent among members of society as they move in society and “expose themselves to the risk of bodily harm”. However, any action that exceeds the limitation of implied consent is a tortious act. This defence is unavailable as Adam’s action would likely be found to exceed any implied consent Leah had given. Furthermore, there was no explicit consent from…

mind, the guilty mind should both be present beyond a reasonable doubt during the criminal act (Verdun Jones, 2014, p. 23). According to section 229 (a) of the Criminal Code, in order to be convicted of culpable homicide, the intention to inflict bodily harm that is likely to result in death is required (Verdun Jones, 2014, p. 43). According to the Forensic experts, Lightwood’s death did not result from the injuries when he was attacked by an ice pick but rather from the effect and exposure he…

A healthcare data set an organized list of information filled with uniformed definitions for a particular use. Each data set is created to capture and arrange certain data elements. The healthcare data set I chose to discuss is The Outcomes and Assessment Information Set (OASIS-C). OASIS-C is a standardized data set designed to obtain and list data about Medicare beneficiaries who receiving services from a Medicare-Certified home health agency (Sayles, 2014, pp. 153). In January, 2010 the OASIS…

seems to produce good results, shows that when mild discipline does not suffice with defiant 2-to-6 year olds, moderate spanking leads to reduced aggression, and that there is in reality not enough strong evidence that spanking, when used moderately, harms children. There are also people who claim physical punishment is borderline abuse and should never be used as a form of punishment. Another such argument…

despite the woman's wishes, you are doing two things. One of them would be granting an unborn fetus more rights and secondly, awarding a woman less rights to their body than a dead person. The personhood and bodily initiative brings up an important point, “In America, the doctrine of bodily autonomy draws its authority from the God-given, and thus unalienable, right to life as recognized by section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment where the state…

to Henych & Thompson (2008) force is defined as “acts that threaten or inflict physical harm on suspects” (p.741). Whereas deadly force takes it several steps further as being defined as “ the application of force likely to cause great bodily injury or death” (Henych & Thompson, 2008 p.741). They further mention that less than lethal force is the use of force that is not likely to cause death or serious bodily injury such as “ touching, prodding, redirection, come-along techniques, physical…

George, 2014 p. 37). In proving this thesis, they set out to rebut the bodily rights argument that states that though the unborn fetus has the right to life by virtue of being a human, they are not entitled to use their mother’s bodies as a means…