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Please see the attachment for details.........THIS PAPER WILL BE A SELF KNOWLEGDE PAPER USING YOUR OWN WORDS BECAUSE I COULDN’T FIND A REWRITE PAPER FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT THIS TIME. SO, IT WILL BE 500 WORD COUNT TO BE COMPLETED PLEASE FOLLOW ALL HIGHLIGHTED DIRECTIONS FOR THIS ASSIGNMENTALSO I HAVE ATTACHED THE CASE STUDYS FOR YOU TO USE IN ORDER FOR THIS PAPER TO BE WHAT THE PROFESSOR WANTS SO PLEASE FOLLOW HIS ORDERS…..THANKS IF ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS PLEASE LET ME KNOW THANKS…. Assignment: Classifications of Defense Imagine a police detective investigating the crime of a young woman who severely maims an older man. The young woman does not explain why she stabbed the man; rather, she is in profound shock and remains silent. If the detective had no awareness of the signs of post-traumatic stress disorder, the detective might not have pursued a line of questioning leading to a revelation: the man had abused the young woman when she was a girl. The circumstance could lead to a plausible defense. Criminal justice professionals must understand defense classifications in order to fulfill their roles. In this Assignment, you review scenarios for an applicable defense. To prepare: Read the Week 3 case studies found in the Criminal Justice Case Studies: Criminal Law, Week 3 document. This Assignment requires you to apply your learning to all case studies in the document. Write a 500 - word paper that addresses the following for each of the five cases: What is the actus reus, or the action that caused harm? What is the mens rea, or the intent of the person who caused the harm? Be sure to discuss the level of mens rea (purposeful, knowing, reckless, and negligent) and explain how you came to this conclusion. Is there concurrence? Did the actus reus and the mens rea occur together? Which excusable or justifiable defense could be applied to this case? What information from the scenario led you to this conclusion?© Laureate Education, Inc. Page 1 of 5 Criminal Justice Case Studies: Criminal Law, Week 3 For the case studies this week, you can revisit case studies used in a previous week— but with some details changed—or choose from new ones. The Case of the Smith Family Shooting Re-read the case study below. Then, imagine that you are a defense attorney and that the following details are also part of the scenario: • The son, a 16-year-old (instead of 12 years old as in the previous case), reported that his father often physically abused his mother. • The father died from the gunshot wound. • The mother, who has never reported abuse, does admit to having been abused and that her statement—“He spouts off things like that, but he never does anything about it.”—was false. • You learn that one of the mother’s co-workers can corroborate seeing her bruised on occasion. Mrs. Smith called emergency dispatchers at 3 a.m. to report a shooting. As the responding officer, you observe the following: Mrs. Smith says that she and her husband had been arguing, and that at one point her husband threatened to shoot her and her son. Mrs. Smith says, “He spouts off things like that, but he never does anything about it. He has a temper. But I’d had enough of his meanness and coming home late, so I went to the bathroom to put myself together and get out of there for a while. In response to being asked if she planned to take her son, she says, “No. I always come back.” Johnny, the Smith’s 16-year-old son, woke up because he heard his parents arguing. He says that they fight often, “but this time the fighting seemed a lot crazier than usual.” Johnny says that his father went outside, slamming the door. Johnny then says, “I picked up the living room gun off the coffee table and went to his bedroom.” He reports that his father keeps “other guns” around the house, unlocked and in the open. During the witness interview, you observe a second gun on an upper book shelf in the living room, in an unlocked case, and a subsequent search of the home uncovers a third gun, not in a case, on a kitchen counter near the back door. Johnny continues to say that when Mr. Smith came back in the house, he continued yelling at Mrs. Smith from the living room. “I fixed the car so you can’t leave!” Mr. Smith yelled. “Where you going to go at this time, anyway?” Johnny said he took the revolver he had taken out of the case it had been in and told his mother to stay in the bathroom. Criminal Justice Case Studies: Criminal Law, Week 3 © Laureate Education, Inc. Page 2 of 5 He then walked into the living room. As Mr. Smith stood up and started walking towards Johnny, Johnny fired the gun at his father. Johnny says that he fired the gun because he was afraid his father might hurt his mother. The mother claims that she did not hear Johnny in the hall until the gun was fired. The father suffered a minor injury on his right hand fr