The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law
Chapter 6: Mens Rea
Page 1: Punishment must be deserved<\/p>\n
The Criminal Lawyer’s Guide to Criminal Law (with pictures!)<\/p>\n
Par 6: “I Didn’t Mean To!”<\/p>\n
As we’ve seen, our sense that punishment must be DESERVED is very powerful. People seem to have an innate sense of JUSTICE that requires some proportionality between the offense and the resulting penalty.<\/p>\n
In this section, we’ll start to explore just what that means.<\/p>\n
Sullen, stubborn infant in a high chair<\/em><\/p>\nThis sense of justice is POWERFUL. Studies have shown that even INFANTS share this desire that wrongdoers be punished, and that punishment be deserved.<\/p>\n
(Perhaps fortunately for parents, particularly at feeding time, there’s not much they can DO about it.)<\/p>\n
[Note, these Criminal Law chapters were originally posted as single long-form pages on Tumblr. When they were ported to this lawcomic website, they were broken up into shorter pages for easier reading and discussion.]<\/p>\n
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