Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 3 14
Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 3 14
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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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