X-Nico

2 unusual facts about English criminal law


Indecency with Children Act 1960

The Indecency with Children Act 1960 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that expanded English criminal law in relation to sexual acts with minors.

Prisoner of the Judoon

The Judoon seek out and arrest Androvax; Captain Tybo commandeers a London Metropolitan Police vehicle and aggressively enforces English car stereo volume limits (threatening a human violator with deadly force); and he and his colleagues summarily sentence Clyde and Rani to restriction to Earth as punishment for their interference.


Common law offence

Common law offences are crimes under English criminal law and the related criminal law of Commonwealth of Nations countries.

Sexual Offences Act 1956

The Sexual Offences Act 1956 (4 & 5 Eliz.2 c.69) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated the English criminal law relating to sexual offences between 1957 and 2004.


see also

Precrime

For born criminals, criminal psychopaths and dangerous habitual offenders eliminatory penalties (capital punishment, indefinite confinement, castration etc.) were seen as appropriate (cf.Leon Radzinowicz/Roger Hood: A History of English Criminal Law, London 1986, pp. 231–387).