Punishment and Blame for Culpable Indifference
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Punishment and Blame for Culpable Indifference
In criminal law, the mental state of the defendant is a crucial determinant of the grade of crime that the defendant has committed and of whether the conduct is criminal at all. Under the widely accepted modern hierarchy of mental states, an actor is most culpable for causing harm purposely and progressively less culpable for doing so knowingly, recklessly, or negligently. Notably, this hierarc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Inquiry
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0020-174X,1502-3923
DOI: 10.1080/0020174x.2015.986853