Criminally Ignorant: Why The Law Pretends We Know What We Don't
- Submitting institution
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The University of Surrey
- Unit of assessment
- 18 - Law
- Output identifier
- 9023012_2
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780190056575
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Producing this 280-page monograph took 5 years all told. It examines criminal law’s approach to willful ignorance from several perspectives: legal theory, moral philosophy and legal doctrine and practice. It defends a novel framework for understanding the willful ignorance doctrine as culpability-based mental state imputation, and systematically argues for reforming this area of law based on research into US federal and state law plus other English-speaking jurisdictions. The book was reviewed in Ethics, Cambridge Law Journal, Criminal Law & Philosophy and Journal of Moral Philosophy, and was selected for public events including a Symposium to appear in the journal Jurisprudence.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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