Sorting Guilty Minds
Posted: 24 May 2011
Date Written: May 23, 2011
Abstract
Our behavioral experiments show that subjects are quite good at assessing and then appropriately blaming based on the five Model Penal Code states of mind (purposeful, knowing, reckless, negligent and blameless), with one exception: they are terrible at distinguishing knowing from reckless. This could have significant consequences when the criminal charge is murder.
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Hoffman, Morris B., Sorting Guilty Minds (May 23, 2011). Gruter Institute Squaw Valley Conference: Law, Institutions & Human Behavior, 2011, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1850777
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