Nowadays the offender who was drunk with alcohol during committing a crime is punished increasingly more severely than past. In Japan punishment for alcohol related crimes (eg. driving with drinking) has been strengthen in the last decade. It is also said that insanity defense for the reason of drunkenness is hardly accepted in the court. Is it the same in other countries?
Hi ...there is no doubt that alcohol increases the incidents of crime, in particular violent and disorder related offences. Drunkenness is no defence to the commission of a crime in the UK in the same manner as ignorance of the law is no excuse. The only possible mitigation to this might be if a suspect could prove 'beyond reasonable doubt' that his or her drink had been tampered with prior to the event.
Careful consideration should be made to the fact that alcohol significantly increases the likelihood of being a victim as well as a perpetrator of crime. A fact that is not usually acknowledged in the publication of 'alcohol related crime' figures, thus these should be interpreted with caution.
Absolutely Bob. We are pushing that line strongly in Australia, particularly based on a couple of recent studies into nightlife. Dunkenness is not a defence under law here, but we have far too many idiot judges that allow it. A lawyer friend says it's always worth a shot, and 30% of the time it's successful in getting a more lenient sentence. The odd thing is, the judges don't see the idiocy of such judgements when compared to drink driving...
Breathylysers proove drunkenness beyond doubt.Drunkenness driving can be forgiven once.If repeated more than twice, driving license should be cancelled.Perpetrators involved in crimes should be severely punished.Alcoholism should not be used as a shield.
On the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico as well as many of the States in the U.S.A. apart from whichever crime there were committing, they're also charged with public intoxication. In fact, in the Alaskan town of Bethel; there considering making illegal even walking on the streets while being intoxicated. But then again in Alaska you could be arrested for drunkenness while being inside a bar.
Hi,
Drunkenness is not any excuse for any crime in Turkish Criminal Law. There is an exeption, if an offender has drunk without his willpower, he defend him with insanity. But he must prove his unwilling.
Добрый день коллеги! В России потребление алкоголя длительное время остается серьезной проблемой. Проводятся исследования по взаимосвязи преступности и пьянства. Но официальная статистика показывает, что уровень "пьяной преступности" постоянно снижается и нет прямой зависимости между пьянством и преступностью.
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