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Culpable Carelessness: Recklessness and Negligence in the Criminal Law

Culpable Carelessness: Recklessness and Negligence in the Criminal Law

Name: Culpable Carelessness: Recklessness and Negligence in the Criminal Law
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107038905
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Author: Findlay Stark
ISBN: 9781107038905

By Findlay Stark

Cambridge University Press October 2016

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ISBN-13: 9781107038905
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: October 2016
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

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.

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