Culpable carelessness : recklessness and negligence in the criminal law /
"The question of when a person is culpable for taking an unjustified risk of harm has long been controversial in Anglo-American criminal law doctrine and theory. This survey of the approaches adopted in England and Wales, Canada, Australia, the United States, New Zealand and Scotland argues tha...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2016
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Table of Contents:
- The doctrinal trend towards the standard account
- Consistency in definition
- From awareness to belief
- Beyond belief : knowledge and awareness
- The significance of awareness of risk
- Culpability beyond awareness of risk : some existing accounts
- Negligence as failure of belief
- Some practicalities