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A person will not be held criminally responsible for his/her acts unless such acts are performed in a conscious and voluntary fashion and satisfy the elements which constitute the proscribed offense. This chapter reviews a number of such offenses or crimes, including assault, both common and aggravated; issues of murder, grievous bodily harm and homicide; manslaughter; abortion; infanticide; suicide; and euthanasia. It deals with issues of consent, causation, and legal responsibility.
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Yannoulidis, S. (2013). Legal Medicine and Criminal Law: Australia. In: Beran, R. (eds) Legal and Forensic Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32338-6_33
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