Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 3 14

 


Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 3 14

A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES

SECOND EDITION

John E. Douglas, Ann W. Burgess, Allen G. Burgess, and Robert K. Ressler, Editors

 

 

What does the criminal act requirement (actus reus, men rea, and causation) have to do with the confession? What is the relationship between the confession and the prosecution’s burden of proof responsibility?

Recall the previous legal description of the confession: that it requires acknowledgment and comprehensive culpability of each required element to constitute a crime.

Regretfully, interviews are concluded prematurely for many reasons, sometimes unknowingly. While devoting a concentrated effort to the first criterion (participation in the criminal act), the interviewer mistakenly over- looks the pivotal third criteria (criminal intent). Although the offender’s acknowledgments may satisfy the actus reus and causation provisions of the criminal act requirements, the admission alone is insufficient to expose every essential element necessary to make a case against the defendant.

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