Ignorance Of Law

Author : Douglas Husak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190604700
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ignorance of Law written by Douglas Husak and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that ignorance of law should usually be a complete excuse from criminal liability. It defends this conclusion by invoking two presumptions: first, the content of criminal law should conform to morality; second, mistakes of fact and mistakes of law should be treated symmetrically. The author grounds his position in an underlying theory of moral and criminal responsibility according to which blameworthiness consists in a defective response to the moral reasons one has. Since persons cannot be faulted for failing to respond to reasons for criminal liability they do not believe they have, then ignorance should almost always excuse. But persons are somewhat responsible for their wrongs when their mistakes of law are reckless, that is, when they consciously disregard a substantial and unjustifiable risk that their conduct might be wrong. This book illustrates this with examples and critiques the arguments to the contrary offered by criminal theorists and moral philosophers. It assesses the real-world implications for the U.S. system of criminal justice. The author describes connections between the problem of ignorance of law and other topics in moral and legal theory.

Author : J. Tom Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979662515
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ignorance is No Defense written by J. Tom Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brian J. Willett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781478730149
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ignorance of the Law Is No Excuse written by Brian J. Willett and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ignorance of the Law is No Excuse" is the insightful book written by Double Board Certified attorney Brian J. Willett. This book depicts a common sense approach to understanding the Texas Criminal Justice system. The book is written for the "non attorney" and is filled with astute examples which explain many of the common criminal laws and procedures in the State of Texas. It includes information on topics such as family assaults, drugs, DWIs, weapon charges, sexual offenses, driver's license suspensions, bonds, juvenile law and criminal record expunctions.

Author : Dr. Alexander Sarch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190056592
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Criminally Ignorant written by Dr. Alexander Sarch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the legal fiction that sometimes we know what we don't. The willful ignorance doctrine says defendants who bury their heads in the sand rather than learn they're doing something criminal are punished as if they knew. Not all legal fictions are unjustified, however. This one, used within proper limits, is a defensible way to promote the aims of the criminal law. Preserving your ignorance can make you as culpable as if you knew what you were doing, and so the interests and values protected by the criminal law can be promoted by treating you as if you had knowledge. This book provides a careful defense of this method of imputing mental states based on equal culpability. On the one hand, the theory developed here shows why the willful ignorance doctrine is only partly justified and requires reform. On the other hand, it demonstrates that the criminal law needs more legal fictions of this kind. Repeated indifference to the truth may substitute for knowledge, and very culpable failures to recognize risks can support treating you as if you took those risks consciously. Moreover, equal culpability imputation should also be applied to corporations, not just individuals. Still, such imputation can be taken too far. We need to determine its limits to avoid injustice. Thus, the book seeks to place equal culpability imputation on a solid normative foundation, while demarcating its proper boundaries. The resulting theory of when and why the criminal law can pretend we know what we don't has far-reaching implications for legal practice and reveals a pressing need for reform.

Author : John Ashbery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ignorance of the Law is No Excuse written by John Ashbery and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387338471
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Commonwealth written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Commonwealth represents Cicero's first serious attempt to bring Greek theories of political life to the circumstances of the Roman Republic. While some passages have been lost or reduced to fragments, it remains an important work of political philosophy and essential reading for political science students.

Author : Ilya Somin
Publisher : Stanford Law Books
ISBN 13 : 9780804786089
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Political Ignorance written by Ilya Somin and published by Stanford Law Books. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the biggest problems with modern democracy is that most of the public is usually ignorant of politics and government. Often, many people understand that their votes are unlikely to change the outcome of an election and don't see the point in learning much about politics. This may be rational, but it creates a nation of people with little political knowledge and little ability to objectively evaluate what they do know. In Democracy and Political Ignorance, Ilya Somin mines the depths of ignorance in America and reveals the extent to which it is a major problem for democracy. Somin weighs various options for solving this problem, arguing that political ignorance is best mitigated and its effects lessened by decentralizing and limiting government. Somin provocatively argues that people make better decisions when they choose what to purchase in the market or which state or local government to live under, than when they vote at the ballot box, because they have stronger incentives to acquire relevant information and to use it wisely.

Author : J. Tom Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780981939704
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ignorance Is No Defense written by J. Tom Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ralph Hertwig
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262045591
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deliberate Ignorance written by Ralph Hertwig and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychologists, economists, historians, computer scientists, sociologists, philosophers, and legal scholars explore the conscious choice not to seek information. The history of intellectual thought abounds with claims that knowledge is valued and sought, yet individuals and groups often choose not to know. We call the conscious choice not to seek or use knowledge (or information) deliberate ignorance. When is this a virtue, when is it a vice, and what can be learned from formally modeling the underlying motives? On which normative grounds can it be judged? Which institutional interventions can promote or prevent it? In this book, psychologists, economists, historians, computer scientists, sociologists, philosophers, and legal scholars explore the scope of deliberate ignorance.

Author : Alana Barton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319973436
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ignorance, Power and Harm written by Alana Barton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the concept of 'agnosis' and its significance for criminology through a series of case studies, contributing to the expansion of the criminological imagination. Agnotology – the study of the cultural production of ignorance, has primarily been proposed as an analytical tool in the fields of science and medicine. However, this book argues that it has significant resonance for criminology and the social sciences given that ignorance is a crucial means through which public acceptance of serious and sometimes mass harms is achieved. The editors argue that this phenomenon requires a systematic inquiry into ignorance as an area of criminological study in its own right. Through case studies on topics such as migrant detention, historical institutionalised child abuse, imprisonment, environmental harm and financial collapse, this book examines the construction of ignorance, and the power dynamics that facilitate and shape that construction in a range of different contexts. Furthermore, this book addresses the relationship between ignorance and the achievement of ‘manufactured consent’ to political and cultural hegemony, acquiescence in its harmful consequences and the deflection of responsibility for them.