Can there be a crime without criminal


       PH 123
QN 2.Can there be a crime without criminal?  Answer the question in the case of killing another by a madman.
INTRODUCTION
A crime means an action or omission which constitutes and offence and is punishable by law. OR. An action or activity considered to be evil, bad, shameful or wrong. Example they condemned apartheid as a crime against humanity,also killing someone and others related to it.
  The term crime originated from the middle English (in the sense "wickedness, sin) :via old French from Latin word "crimen" which means "judgement, offence " based on corner mean "to judge".Simply we can say that, a crime is an illegal act for which someone can be punished by government especially a gross violation of law, grave offense against morality, criminal activity effort to fight crime.  From the act, yes crime can there without a criminal because a madman is not actually killing another person  as his normal action but become an accidentally issue so that we can not term a madman as a criminal  and the term criminal is a broader term we know.
In case of killing another by a madman is not a criminal as the statements of the question says because the criminal insanity and mental health or illness describe that people who are changed with criminal offence who are suffering from mental disorders are dealt with under the criminal law (insanity) Act of 2006 as amended by criminal law (insanity) of 2010.
If a person is suffering from a mental disorder, they may be considered unfit to be tried at the start of the trial without judge killing another whether is bad or good but we consider the situation of a man who killing another.
In a marder cases, the concept of diminished responsibility may be used to substitute a verdict of manslaughter. And mental  disorder is defined in the 2006 Act as including ;mental illness, mental disability, demontia or any diseases of mind but does not include intoxication (drunkenness).
Conclusion.
In finding (that is that someone is considered unfit to be tried) is not a decision on the alleged criminal activity .And we may ask the question ourselves, why would a madman kill someone?, and can answered that most killing are much complex than that but they involves codes of honor, belief system, escalating tensions or simple heat of the moment. A few people believe themselves superior to others. 
These are the "madmen" you probably speak of though women are almost as prone to this as men, just less likely to get their hands dirty with actual killing. These people will kill for sports, political gain, greed and power according to Drac Smith, a psychologist .         


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