Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Author "Hoffman, Morris B."

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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 ...
    • Parsing the Behavioral and Brain Mechanisms of Third-Party Punishment 
      Jones, Owen D.; Ginther, Matthew R.; Bonnie, Richard J.; Hoffman, Morris B.; Shen, Francis X.; Simons, Kenneth W.; Marois, Rene (The Journal of Neuroscience, 2016)
      The evolved capacity for third-party punishment is considered crucial to the emergence and maintenance of elaborate human social organization and is central to the modern provision of fairness and justice within society. ...
    • 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 ...