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Culpable Carelessness: Recklessness and Negligence in the Criminal Law


ISBN13: 9781108465120
Published: December 2018
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback (Hardback in 2016)
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Hardback edition , ISBN13 9781107038905



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The question of when it is culpable for a person to take 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 that they are converging, to differing extents, around a 'Standard Account' of culpable unjustified risk-taking.

This Standard Account distinguishes between awareness-based culpability (recklessness) and inadvertence-based culpability (negligence) for unjustified risk-taking. With reference to criminal law theory and philosophical literature, the author argues that, when explained appropriately, the Standard Account is defensible and practical. Defending the Standard Account involves analysing in depth a number of controversial matters, including: the meaning of advertence/awareness; the role of attitudes such as indifference in culpable risk-taking; and the question of whether negligence should be used in the criminal law.

Subjects:
Criminal Law
Contents:
1. Introduction
2. The doctrinal trend towards the Standard Account
3. Consistency in definition
4. From awareness to belief
5. Beyond belief: knowledge and awareness of risk
6. The significance of awareness of risk
7. Culpability beyond awareness of risk - some existing accounts
8. Negligence as failure of belief
9. Some practicalities.