The Judicial Interpretation of Suicide
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Prevention of suicide: police powers, parliamentary intent and judicial interpretation.
While in most countries suicide is no longer a crime, it is also acknowledged that the state has an interest in the preservation of human life, the prevention of suicide, and the protection of vulnerable persons from harming themselves. In a civil, secular and democratic society, however, the public law principle of state protective powers has to be balanced against the private law principle of...
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عنوان ژورنال: University of Pennsylvania Law Review
سال: 1957
ISSN: 0041-9907
DOI: 10.2307/3310315