Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2014
ISSN
0042-2533
Language
en-US
Abstract
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?
Recommended Citation
Kenneth Simons, Matthew R. Ginther, Francis X. Shen & Richard J. Bonnie,
The Language of Mens Rea
,
in
67
Vanderbilt Law Review
1327
(2014).
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