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Full-Text Articles in Law
Corporate Criminal Minds, Mihailis E. Diamantis
Corporate Criminal Minds, Mihailis E. Diamantis
Notre Dame Law Review
In order to commit the vast majority of crimes, corporations must, in some sense, have mental states. Lawmakers and scholars assume that factfinders need fundamentally different procedures for attributing mental states to corporations and individuals. As a result, they saddle themselves with unjustifiable theories of mental state attribution, like respondeat superior, that produce results wholly at odds with all the major theories of the objectives of criminal law.
This Article draws on recent findings in cognitive science to develop a new, comprehensive approach to corporate mens rea that would better allow corporate criminal law to fulfill its deterrent, retributive, and …
Looking Ahead: October Term 2016, Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Looking Ahead: October Term 2016, Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Scholarly Works
This essay looks at leading cases set for the Supreme Court's next term, at some cases the Supreme Court chose not to hear, and at other events, such as a possible recusal by Justice Ginsburg in a disputed election case, that may set the agenda for the coming term. In addition, it looks at the diminished role of the United States Supreme Court as an appellate body in relation to the Courts of Appeal and the state courts.
Rape And Force: The Forgotten Mens Rea, Kit Kinports
Rape And Force: The Forgotten Mens Rea, Kit Kinports
Kit Kinports
In rape cases involving physical violence or express threats of physical harm, proof of the actus reus obviously does establish mens rea with respect to force as well as nonconsent. A defendant who beat or threatened to kill his victim could hardly raise a plausible argument that he did not know he was using force. But, in other circumstances, the defendant's mens rea vis-a-vis force may be less clear, and it may therefore make a difference whether a rape conviction requires proof that the defendant purposely intended to use force, or whether it is enough that he knew he was …
Rosemond, Mens Rea, And The Elements Of Complicity, Kit Kinports
Rosemond, Mens Rea, And The Elements Of Complicity, Kit Kinports
Kit Kinports
The confluence of two widely invoked federal statutes – one governing accomplice liability, the other imposing a sentencing enhancement when firearms are involved in a violent or drug-trafficking crime – reached the Supreme Court this past Term in Rosemond v. United States. The Court’s analysis of the mens rea issues raised in that case starkly illustrates the confusion characterizing this area of complicity law, which has attracted surprisingly little attention from courts, legislators, or scholars. The lack of clarity is particularly acute for crimes like the weapons offense in Rosemond that can plausibly be interpreted to include a circumstance element. …
The Matthew Shepard And James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act: A Criminal Perspective, Meredith Boram
The Matthew Shepard And James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act: A Criminal Perspective, Meredith Boram
University of Baltimore Law Review
[H]ate crimes ... leave deep scars not only on the victims, but on our larger community. They weaken the sense that we are one people with common values and a common future. They tear us apart when we should be moving closer together. They are acts of violence against America itself.. . As part of our preparation for the new century, it is time for us to mount an all-out assault on hate crimes, to punish them swiftly and severely, and to do more to prevent them from happening in the first place. We must begin with a deeper understanding …
Predicting The Knowledge–Recklessness Distinction In The Human Brain, Iris Vilares, Michael J. Wesley, Woo-Young Woo-Young Ahn, Richard J. Bonnie, Morris B. Hoffman, Owen D. Jones, Stephen J. Morse, Gideon Yaffe, Terry Lohrenz, Read Montague
Predicting The Knowledge–Recklessness Distinction In The Human Brain, Iris Vilares, Michael J. Wesley, Woo-Young Woo-Young Ahn, Richard J. Bonnie, Morris B. Hoffman, Owen D. Jones, Stephen J. Morse, Gideon Yaffe, Terry Lohrenz, Read Montague
All Faculty Scholarship
Criminal convictions require proof that a prohibited act was performed in a statutorily specified mental state. Different legal consequences, including greater punishments, are mandated for those who act in a state of knowledge, compared with a state of recklessness. Existing research, however, suggests people have trouble classifying defendants as knowing, rather than reckless, even when instructed on the relevant legal criteria.
We used a machine-learning technique on brain imaging data to predict, with high accuracy, which mental state our participants were in. This predictive ability depended on both the magnitude of the risks and the amount of information about those …
Criminal Law And Common Sense: An Essay On The Perils And Promise Of Neuroscience, Stephen J. Morse
Criminal Law And Common Sense: An Essay On The Perils And Promise Of Neuroscience, Stephen J. Morse
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This article is based on the author’s Barrock Lecture in Criminal Law presented at the Marquette University Law School. The central thesis is that the folk psychology that underpins criminal responsibility is correct and that our commonsense understanding of agency and responsibility and the legitimacy of criminal justice generally are not imperiled by contemporary discoveries in the various sciences, including neuroscience and genetics. These sciences will not revolutionize criminal law, at least not anytime soon, and at most they may make modest contributions to legal doctrine, practice, and policy. Until there are conceptual or scientific breakthroughs, this is my story …
Mens Rea, Criminal Responsibility, And The Death Of Freddie Gray, Michael Serota
Mens Rea, Criminal Responsibility, And The Death Of Freddie Gray, Michael Serota
Michigan Law Review First Impressions
Who (if anyone) is criminally responsible for the death of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old African-American man who died from injuries suffered while in the custody of Baltimore police? This question has been at the forefront of the extensive coverage of Gray’s death, which has inspired a national discussion about law enforcement’s relationship with black communities. But it is also a question that may never be fairly resolved for reasons wholly unrelated to the topic of community policing, with which Gray’s death has become synonymous. What may ultimately hamper the administration of justice in the prosecution of the police officers involved …
Trusting To A Fault: Criminal Negligence And Faith Healing Deaths, Ken Nickel
Trusting To A Fault: Criminal Negligence And Faith Healing Deaths, Ken Nickel
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Faith healing deaths occur infrequently in Canada, but when they do they pose a considerable challenge for criminal justice. Similar to caregivers who absent-mindedly and fatally forget a child in a hot vehicle, faith healers do not intentionally harm their children. It can seem legally excessive and unjust to prosecute achingly bereaved parents. But unlike ‘hot-car’ deaths, faith healing parents are not absent minded in the deaths they cause. Rather, significant deliberation and strength of will is necessary to treat their child’s ailment with faith alone. Two different Criminal Code provisions can be brought to bear upon these deaths, namely, …
Authority, Ignorance, And The Guilty Mind, Stephen P. Garvey
Authority, Ignorance, And The Guilty Mind, Stephen P. Garvey
Stephen P. Garvey
No abstract provided.
Rosemond, Mens Rea, And The Elements Of Complicity, Kit Kinports
Rosemond, Mens Rea, And The Elements Of Complicity, Kit Kinports
San Diego Law Review
The confluence of two widely invoked federal statutes—one governing accomplice liability, the other imposing a sentencing enhancement when firearms are involved in a violent or drug trafficking crime—reached the Supreme Court this past term in Rosemond v. United States. The Court’s analysis of the mens rea issues raised in that case starkly illustrates the confusion characterizing this area of complicity law, which has attracted surprisingly little attention from courts, legislators, or scholars. The lack of clarity is particularly acute for crimes like the weapons offense in Rosemond that can plausibly be interpreted to include a circumstance element. This Article attempts …
Punishment And Blame For Culpable Indifference, Kenneth Simons
Punishment And Blame For Culpable Indifference, Kenneth Simons
Faculty Scholarship
In criminal law, the mental state of the defendant is a crucial determinant of the grade of crime that the defendant has committed and of whether the conduct is criminal at all. Under the widely accepted modern hierarchy of mental states, an actor is most culpable for causing harm purposely, and progressively less culpable for doing so knowingly, recklessly, or negligently. Notably, this hierarchy emphasizes cognitive rather than conative mental states. But this emphasis, I argue, is often unjustified. When we punish and blame for wrongful acts, we should look beyond the cognitive dimensions of the actor’s culpability, and should …
Rosemond, Mens Rea, And The Elements Of Complicity, Kit Kinports
Rosemond, Mens Rea, And The Elements Of Complicity, Kit Kinports
Journal Articles
The confluence of two widely invoked federal statutes – one governing accomplice liability, the other imposing a sentencing enhancement when firearms are involved in a violent or drug-trafficking crime – reached the Supreme Court this past Term in Rosemond v. United States. The Court’s analysis of the mens rea issues raised in that case starkly illustrates the confusion characterizing this area of complicity law, which has attracted surprisingly little attention from courts, legislators, or scholars. The lack of clarity is particularly acute for crimes like the weapons offense in Rosemond that can plausibly be interpreted to include a circumstance element. …
Neuroscience, Free Will, And Criminal Responsibility, Stephen J. Morse
Neuroscience, Free Will, And Criminal Responsibility, Stephen J. Morse
All Faculty Scholarship
This chapter argues that the folk-psychological model of the person and responsibility is not challenged by determinism in general or by neurodeterminism in particular. Until science conclusively demonstrates that human beings cannot be guided by reasons and that mental states play no role in explaining behavior, the folk-psychological model of responsibility is justified. This chapter discusses the motivations to turn to science to solve the hard normative problems the law addresses, as well as the law's psychology and its concepts of the person and responsibility. Then it considers the general relation of neuroscience to law, which I characterize as the …
Is Felony Murder The New Depraved Heart Murder: Considering The Appropriate Punishment For Drunken Drivers Who Kill, Dora W. Klein
Is Felony Murder The New Depraved Heart Murder: Considering The Appropriate Punishment For Drunken Drivers Who Kill, Dora W. Klein
Faculty Articles
In recognition of the increasing use of felony-murder statutes to prosecute drunken drivers who kill, this Article considers various criticisms and defenses of the felony-murder rule as they apply specifically to felony DWI cases. Part II of this Article discusses several recent precedent setting cases in which drunken drivers who killed were prosecuted under felony murder statutes. Part III explores whether such prosecutions are proper, given the existence of special narrower vehicular manslaughter provisions that a legislature might have intended to be the sole means of prosecuting drunk drivers who kill. Part IV discusses three particular limiting doctrines-merger, inherent dangerousness, …
Bringing Coherence To Mens Rea Analysis For Securities-Related Offenses, Michael L. Seigel
Bringing Coherence To Mens Rea Analysis For Securities-Related Offenses, Michael L. Seigel
Michael L Seigel
This Article has demonstrated that the failure of commentators and the courts to tackle mens rea analysis head-on has resulted in lasting incoherence in the law. Unintelligible legal doctrine does not simply upset individuals who strive for elegant solutions to legal problems; it also exacts a huge, real-life toll. Juries faced with incoherent legal instructions are likely to become disillusioned about the justice system. Citizens receive inadequate guidance as to acceptable and unacceptable behavior, hampering deterrence -- particularly in the securities-law arena, where one presumably finds mostly rational actors who would be deterred by clear legal rules. Securities regulation is …
Searching For Culpability, Punishing The Guilty, And Protecting The Innocent: Should Congress Look To The Model Penal Code To Stem The Tide Of Federal Overcriminalization?, David Dailey
Catholic University Law Review
In late 2014, the House Judiciary Committee's Overcriminalization Task Force is expected to release a final report on federal overcriminalization. The Task Force has been studying the issue for over a year, and had held several hearings on a lack of a mens rea requirement in many federal statutes, as well as regulatory offenses that carry criminal sanctions. Several experts have recommended that Congress enact a default mens rea provision similar to the Model Penal Code (MPC). This Comment explores the issue of mens rea at the federal level and the federal courts' understanding of mens rea in federal criminal …
Blameworthiness, Intent And Cultural Dissonance, Nancy Kim
Blameworthiness, Intent And Cultural Dissonance, Nancy Kim
Nancy Kim
Criminal law assumes that the judge and jury share the same cultural and experiential framework as the defendant; accordingly, crimes are defined with this assumption as an underlying premise. In this article, I will explain how the determination of mens rea often fails to reflect culpability because the definition of crimes fail to account for the cultural dissonance that often exists between the judge/juror and the accused. In this Article, I propose an analysis and reconceptualization of intent that bridges gaps in perception and understanding attributable to cultural dissonance.
Authority, Ignorance, And The Guilty Mind, Stephen P. Garvey
Authority, Ignorance, And The Guilty Mind, Stephen P. Garvey
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Introduction To The Structure And Limits Of Criminal Law, Paul H. Robinson, Joshua Samuel Barton
Introduction To The Structure And Limits Of Criminal Law, Paul H. Robinson, Joshua Samuel Barton
All Faculty Scholarship
The book The Structure and Limits of Criminal Law (Ashgate) collects and reprints classic articles on three topics: the conceptual structure of criminal law doctrine, the conduct necessary and that sufficient for criminal liability, and the offender culpability and blameworthiness necessary and that sufficient for criminal liability. The collection includes articles by H.L.A. Hart, Sanford Kadish, George Fletcher, Herbert Packer, Norval Morris, Gordon Hawkins, Andrew von Hirsch, Bernard Harcourt, Richard Wasserstrom, Andrew Simester, John Darley, Kent Greenawalt, and Paul Robinson. This essay serves as an introduction to the collection, explaining how each article fits into the larger debate and giving …
Beyond "De-Nile" - The United Nations' Genocide Problem In Darfur, William Reisinger
Beyond "De-Nile" - The United Nations' Genocide Problem In Darfur, William Reisinger
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
What Was He Thinking? Mens Rea’S Deterrent Effect On Machinegun Possession Under 18 U.S.C. § 924 (C), Stephanie Power
What Was He Thinking? Mens Rea’S Deterrent Effect On Machinegun Possession Under 18 U.S.C. § 924 (C), Stephanie Power
Catholic University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Comparative Criminal Law, Luis E. Chiesa
Comparative Criminal Law, Luis E. Chiesa
Contributions to Books
Published as Chapter 47 in The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law, Markus Dubber & Tatjana Hörnle, eds.
Criminal law is a parochial discipline. Courts and scholars in the English speaking world seldom take seriously the criminal statutes, cases and scholarly writings published in the non-English speaking world. The same is true the other way around. This is unfortunate. Much can be learned from comparing the way in which the world’s leading legal systems approach important questions of criminal theory.
This Chapter introduces the reader to comparative criminal law with the aim of demonstrating how comparative analysis can enrich both domestic …
The Language Of Mens Rea, Kenneth Simons, Matthew R. Ginther, Francis X. Shen, Richard J. Bonnie
The Language Of Mens Rea, Kenneth Simons, Matthew R. Ginther, Francis X. Shen, Richard J. Bonnie
Faculty Scholarship
This article answers two key questions. First: Do jurors understand and apply the criminal mental state categories the way that the widely influential Model Penal Code (MPC) assumes? Second: If not, what can be done about it?
Proportional Mens Rea, Stephen F. Smith
Mens Rea, Due Process And The Burden Of Proving Sanity Or Insanity, Daniel K. Spradlin
Mens Rea, Due Process And The Burden Of Proving Sanity Or Insanity, Daniel K. Spradlin
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
When Does Sleaze Become A Crime? Redefining Honest Services Fraud After Skilling V. United States, Teresa M. Becvar
When Does Sleaze Become A Crime? Redefining Honest Services Fraud After Skilling V. United States, Teresa M. Becvar
Chicago-Kent Law Review
Honest services fraud, which is defined as a scheme or artifice to deprive another of the intangible right of “honest services,” is just one tool in the federal government’s extensive arsenal used to prosecute public corruption and private corporate fraud. The Supreme Court curtailed the expansion of this versatile theory twice in the past three decades, most recently in June 2010 in Skilling v. United States. In Skilling, the Court held, inter alia, that the federal honest services statute covers only bribery and kickback schemes and not undisclosed self-dealing. Months later, members of Congress proposed the Honest Services …
Avoiding The Insanity Defense Strait Jacket: The Mens Rea Route, Harlow M. Huckabee
Avoiding The Insanity Defense Strait Jacket: The Mens Rea Route, Harlow M. Huckabee
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Evidence Of Mental Disorder On Mens Rea: Constitutionality Of Drawing The Line At The Insanity Defense , Harlow M. Huckabee
Evidence Of Mental Disorder On Mens Rea: Constitutionality Of Drawing The Line At The Insanity Defense , Harlow M. Huckabee
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Knowledge Inferences In Money Laundering And Structuring Prosecutions, Parry Alicia Stender Black
Knowledge Inferences In Money Laundering And Structuring Prosecutions, Parry Alicia Stender Black
Parry Alicia Stender Black
No abstract provided.