Cases that Changed Legislation

Cases which made
changes in Legislatives

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Criminology is a study of the crime from the view of social perspective which includes
examination of the one who commits crime, reason why the crime was committed and its impact
with the ways in which it can be prevented. The criminal justice system is the series of the
government agencies and the institutions (Kirchengast, Iliadis and O'Connell, 2019). It
investigates the crimes which have been committed in the community followed by taking the
suspect to the custody and prosecute it in the court and punish it, if found guilty. The laws are
made in UK which regulates the criminology in the country with the aim to render justice to the
victim and punish the wrongdoer. This article will cover two wrongdoing cases that happened in
most recent 30 years and assess the progressions each case made to the criminal equity
enactment and strategy.
MAIN BODY
Criminal justice system is a process or the system in a community where the crimes are
investigated and the person who is suspected to be the accused is taken to the custody and
prosecuted in the court. Then the wrongdoer, if found guilty is punished. The justice system
consists of the major components which includes courts, police and the corrections which deter
and prevent the crimes in whole nation (O'Neill, 2018).
One such case is R v R (1991) case evaluated a change of the rule in common law which
reflects that-
“the spouse can't be held blameworthy of assault submitted by him on his legitimate wife, as
indicated by wedding assent and agreement, in which it is viewed as that the wife has given
irreversible agree to her better half altogether conditions which she can't deny”
Keeping in mind the changing social, economic and cultural trends such outdated rule was
considered against the fundamental human right and also created a question on consent. Thus,
the law is evolving with the occurring trends, favouring human rights. The former cases with the
general rule encouraged many rape cases, forming new definition of marriage which raised
question mark on the consent of wife. Further this belief that the martial exemption for rape
increased new criminal offences ultimately led to miscarriage of justice (Lynch, 2018).
The R v R case focuses on marital rape in which a husband was alleged of rape causing
actual body harm to his wife and was convicted for rape. For this situation, R wedded his better