Browsing Law School by Subject "Model Penal Code"

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    • Decoding Guilty Minds: How Jurors Attribute Knowledge and Guilt 
      Jones, Owen D.; Ginther, Matthew R.; Shen, Francis X.; Bonnie, Richard J.; Hoffman, Morris B.; Simons, Kenneth W. (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2018)
      A central tenet of Anglo-American penal law is that in order for an actor to be found criminally liable, a proscribed act must be accompanied by a guilty mind. While it is easy to understand the importance of this principle ...
    • Economics, Behavioral Biology, and Law 
      Jones, Owen D.; O'Connor, Erin O'Hara; Stake, Jeffrey Evans (Supreme Court Economic Review, 2011)
      The article first compares economics and behavioral biology, examining the assumptions, core concepts, methodological tenets, and emphases of the two fields. Building on this, the article then compares the applied ...
    • How and Why is the American Punishment System "Exceptional"? 
      Slobogin, Christopher (The Journal of Things We Like (Lots), 2018-04-24)
      Anyone interested in American criminal justice has to wonder why we have so many more people in prison—in absolute as well as relative terms—than the western half of the European continent, the part of the world most readily ...
    • Sorting Guilty Minds 
      Jones, Owen D.; Shen, Francis X.; Hoffman, Morris B.; Greene, Joshua D.; Marois, Rene (New York University Law Review, 2011)
      Because punishable guilt requires that bad thoughts accompany bad acts, the Model Penal Code (MPC) typically requires that jurors infer the past mental state of a criminal defendant. More specifically, jurors must sort ...