{"id":178,"date":"2012-10-17T22:35:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T02:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=178"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:19:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:19:42","slug":"2-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"2. Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-179\" title=\"MensRea02\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MensRea02.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MensRea02.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MensRea02-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e6046ef11840054057830' value='69e6046ef11840054057830'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e6046ef11840054057830' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e6046ef11840054057830' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e6046ef11840054057830' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 6: Mens Rea<br \/>Page 2: Blaming the Victim<\/p>\n<p>This drive is so strong that, when we see bad things happen to perfectly innocent people, we want to think that they somehow had it COMING.<\/p>\n<p>Psychologists call this the &#8220;Just World&#8221; phenomenon, a cognitive bias that explains why someone may feel compelled to blame the victim of a rape, or minimize the suffering of victims of war atrocities or AIDS.<\/p>\n<p><em>Many dead bodies, either from an epidemic or from violence<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">AVERAGE JOE (being a know-it-all)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Clearly, they brought this on themselves\u2026<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e6046ef11840054057830' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,37,1],"tags":[5,4,16,17],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-law","category-culpability","category-uncategorized","tag-crime","tag-criminal-law","tag-culpability","tag-mens-rea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}