Criminally ignorant : why the law pretends we know what we don't /
The willful ignorance doctrine says defendants should sometimes be treated as if they know what they don't. This book provides a careful defense of this method of imputing mental states. Though the doctrine is only partly justified and requires reform, it also demonstrates that the criminal law...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2019.
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| Online Erişim: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2139689 |
İçindekiler:
- Introduction
- Criminal law basics and the willful ignorance doctrine
- What is criminal culpability
- The scope of the willful ignorance doctrine (I)
- The scope of the willful ignorance doctrine (II) : the duty to reasonably inform oneself
- Toward a normative theory of equal culpability imputation
- Iterated reckless ignorance as a substitute for knowledge
- Substituting willful ignorance for purpose?
- Subwillful motivated ignorance
- Corporations keeping themselves in the dark
- Conclusion.