{"id":181,"date":"2012-10-17T22:35:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T02:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=181"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:19:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:19:59","slug":"3-who-deserves-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"3. Who Deserves Punishment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-182\" title=\"MensRea03\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MensRea03.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MensRea03.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MensRea03-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69f5110c5d11c7004180475' value='69f5110c5d11c7004180475'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69f5110c5d11c7004180475' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69f5110c5d11c7004180475' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69f5110c5d11c7004180475' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 6: Mens Rea<br \/>Page 3: Innocents<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also one of the reasons why our emotions are so much\u00a0<strong>stronger<\/strong> when we see very young children suffering\u2014unlike adults, they simply CANNOT have done anything to deserve it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sweet little kid looking up worriedly at a man in a wifebeater holding an empty beer bottle<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;ll see, these kinds of considerations play out in criminal justice in several ways. Our sense of justice demands that the State only punish people who DESERVE it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But what does that mean?<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69f5110c5d11c7004180475' 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-181","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\/181","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=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}