Criminal Justice and Legal Deffenses

LEGAL DEFENSES

In the United States, an offender is considered less responsible or not responsible at all for acting under certain things/ways that the United States' law establishes. Those conditions are legal defenses or legal excuses for criminal responsibility. These excuses or defenses include acted under duress, was underage, was insane, acted in self-defense or in defense of a third party, was entrapped, or acted out of necessity. The two that I most agree with would have to be acting under insanity and acting out of self-defense. The legal excuse that I don't agree with is the underage one. I will explain to you why.

Insanity itself is a mental disorder, in which at times you cannot control your actions. When you are acting under insanity, it doesn't necessarily mean you are crazy. It could be that there was appoint in your life in which unconsciously you let insanity take control. You lost sense or what you were doing and you acted under impulsiveness. It is a temperate disorder in your head that makes you loose sense for a moment and you cannot control your actions. Insanity is usually caused by harsh news given to some one that makes them extremely mad and outraged.

When you are aggregated what do you do? If you were to get attacked or assaulted by some one, what would you do? Would you defend yourself? Or will you just let things the way they are? Questions like these are very easy to answer. Of course you will defend yourself. Of course you would do something about it. But what happens if by mistake you kill that person intending to defend yourself? What will happen than? Well, the criminal justice system in the U.S. has it all under control. It would be unfair to be guilty of a crime if you were just defending your life. This is another legal excuse for a criminal responsibility. I really agree with this one because it's logical that people will defend themselves if being hurt or aggregated.

The legal defense that I disagree with is the underage one. Yes, I understand that when a person is underage they may be less mature or wise than an older person, but that still should not let them get away with crimes because of their age. They are still responsible for their actions. I think that maybe the first time that the crime or felony is committed by this underage should be let go as a warning but I think that if there is a 2nd or 3rd time, it should