Elements of comparative law on criminal liability for acts committed while intoxicated

Abstract

The scale of alcoholism in contemporary human society is alarming. Nothing spreads faster than the habit of alcohol, drug addiction and taxonomy. It is a social problem for modern society. On the one hand, alcoholics and drug addicts are always ready to commit antisocial acts, alcohol and drug use being one of the major causes of crime, and on the other hand they cause degeneration, children of alcoholics and drug addicts often become criminals. or degenerate physically and intellectually. This sinister and erroneous understanding of alcohol consumption, which has caused unfortunate criminal acts and special harm to the individual, does not yield anything in favor of understanding what alcohol actually is. and untempered habits are also detrimental to the general well-being of society as they are fatal to the happiness of the individual. In proposing remedies, the Mani British Parliament’s House of Commons Special Committee on Intoxication alluded to the causes of drunkenness which it considered to be a “deeply rooted, ancient, widespread and strongly encouraged evil of negligence, ignorance, prejudice, customs and self-interest.” selfish”. It was believed that these remedies could fall into two broad categories: legislative remedies and moral remedies, and the law was to “frame, inhibit, and punish the malicious and contagious inclinations of malicious members of society that encourage drunkenness.”