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by
Dr. William J. Frey
Capacity
Responsibility
Criminal
Responsibility
Civil
Responsibility
Miscellaneous
Responsibility
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What is compulsion?
The production in an individual
of a state of mind or body contrary to the actual will.
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What is mens rea?
A guilty state of mind.
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What is negligence?
Liability based on failure
to exercise due care.
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What is causal responsibility?
Physical motions produce an event.
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What is praise (if the action is good) and
blame (if the action is bad)?
Performing an action knowingly
and voluntarily allows others to
impute the following to me.
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What is actus reus?
A guilty action.
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What is recklessness?
This liability is based on taking and
imposing on others undue risk.
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What is role responsibility?
Individual stands committed to
carry out the common goods
around which a social
or professional role is oriented.
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What is acting under
psychological compulsion ?
When the band leader signed
the contract because Luca Brasi
told him that he would either
have the band leader’s signature or
his brains on the contract.
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What is beyond a reasonable
doubt?
The burden of proof in a criminal
proceeding or trial.
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What is tort?
This Latin term stands for wrongful
injury
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What is “euphemistic
labeling”?
Calling defamation (libel or
slander) “flaming” or “harmless
puffery”
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What is excusable ignorance?
I betray my sister’s secret
not knowing it was a secret.
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What is the ability to appreciate the moral
and legal qualities of one’s action?
Those who are insane lack this
cognitive capacity.
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What is preponderance of
evidence?
This is the burden of proof in a
civil proceeding or trial.
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How did the BMX Police displace
responsibility by “blaming the
victim”?
“Can’t she take a joke?”
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What is an excuse that gets us off the
moral hook for something we have
done?
To successfully deny a condition
of capacity responsibility is to
validate this.
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What are corporations?
Criminal law has trouble with these legal
persons because they have no body to kick
or soul to damn.
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What are punitive damages?
This type of penalty or fine
represents an invasion of civil law
by criminal law
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When is an act performed under compulsion
(influence of alcohol) not excusable? (I got
myself into the compelling situation.)
I had a few too many drinks
and then said some things to
my friend that I should not have
said.
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