... by The Regents of the University of California 2020 criminal law punishment strict liability culpability fault requirement mens rea STRICT L IABIL ITY AND THE PURPOSE OF PUNISHMENT Monika Simmler* The main argument of this article is that only a clear conception of the purpose of punishment can...

... under criminal law for representation, judicial review, and uniform sentencing, among others. Restorative justice shares this automatic culpability with strict liability, an older and proven legal tool that has had long experience convicting defendants without the need to prove mens rea . The present...

... of culpability that they represent. Therefore, the Article calls for the abandonment of the prevalent basic assumption that sees cognitive void as a state indicating lack of subjective mens rea , and suggests replacing it with a normative approach that would recognize cognitive void as a multidimensional term...

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