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Injury crimes and the temporary incapacity for work: A critique
- Source :
- Aggression and violent behaviour, 51
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- The duration of a victim's incapacity for work is a factor in sentencing for violent crimes in countries that are heirs to eighteen-century European penal codes. In this article, we consider pitfalls of this criterion. A major issue is the poor correlation between the criminal intent, the criminal act and the outcome of the injury. Furthermore, external factors unrelated to the aggression often contribute to punishment decisions under these systems. As an alternative, we highlight recent changes to the penal code in Spain. The Spanish system has replaced incapacity for work with a different health-related criterion for sentencing in personal injury cases. We argue that this approach places a greater focus on protection of bodily integrity that is more consistent with the ostensible intentions of laws against personal violence.<br />SCOPUS: re.j<br />info:eu-repo/semantics/published
- Subjects :
- Bodily integrity
Punishment
Penal code
media_common.quotation_subject
Penal codes
Criminology
Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Psychologie clinique
Duration (philosophy)
Clinical legal medicine
medicine
Médecine légale
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Poor correlation
Personal injury crimes
media_common
Aggression
050901 criminology
05 social sciences
Bodily harm
Personal injury
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Pathologie générale
Work (electrical)
0509 other social sciences
medicine.symptom
Psychology
050104 developmental & child psychology
Psychiatrie
Incapacity for work
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Aggression and violent behaviour, 51
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....742d9afcefa19b9332c236f813ac1419