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Understanding Criminal Law and Torts: Key Offenses and Legal Principles

Criminal law governs offenses against citizens, including serious crimes like murder, theft, and drug misuse, potentially leading offenders to incarceration. Legal and ethical practices define the accepted conduct enforced by authorities. Torts, or civil wrongs, include malpractice, negligence, assault, and defamation, affecting individuals and property. Key principles such as informed consent and privacy invasions underpin accountability in healthcare and personal interactions. This overview explores essential concepts and examples to understand the legal landscape and the protection of individual rights.

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Understanding Criminal Law and Torts: Key Offenses and Legal Principles

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  1. Criminal Law – deals with offences against all citizens. Offenders can go to prison or jail. Legal and Ethical Practices Law- rule of conduct or action prescribed or formally recognized as binding or enforced by a controlling authority

  2. Examples of Criminal Law • Practicing in a health care profession without a license • Misuse of narcotics • Theft • Murder

  3. Torts • Tort – from the french word “wrong” • It can be defined as a civil wrong committed against a person or property excluding breach of contract

  4. Torts • Malpractice – interpret as “bad practice” and includes providing improper or unprofessional treatment or care that results in injury to the patient.

  5. Torts • Negligence – Person at fault failed to do what a reasonable and careful person would have done, or did what a reasonable and careful person would not have done. Also can be defined as failure to take reasonable precautions to protect others form the risk of harm.

  6. Torts • Assault – any willful attempt or threat to injure another person with the apparent ability to do so. • Battery – unlawful touching of another person without consent. Assault Battery

  7. Informed Consent • The patient/client understands the reason for treatment • They understand: • What will be done • Who will do it • How it will be done • Expected outcomes patient must also understand treatment alternatives and the consequences of not having treatment.

  8. Torts • Invasion of privacy – unnecessary exposure of an individual or revealing personal information about an individual without consent • False Imprisonment – restraining an individual or restricting an individual’s freedom

  9. Torts • Defamation of Character – damaging a person’s name and reputation by making public statements that are false and malicious. • Libel – if the information released is written • Slander – if the information released is spoken

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