Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is characterized by symptoms that include intense fear, helplessness, and/or horror that a person experiences following an exposure to a traumatic event. The traumatic event can include an actual or threatened death or a threat to oneâs or another personâs physical integrity.
Judicious means âusing good judgement, careful and sensibleâ, as in the judicious use of public investment or the judicious use of pesticides; it should not be confused with judicial, which means ârelating to the administration of justiceâ, as in the judicial system
actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea. Bishop writes: ' There can be no crime large or small, without an evil mind. It is therefore a principle of our legal system, as probably it is of every other, that the essence of an offense is the wrongful intent, without which it cannot exist. This examination of the mental element or mens rea requisite for crime, will be restricted with reference to the use of the term itself in so far as it signifies the mental element necessary