{"id":217,"date":"2012-10-17T23:19:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T03:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=217"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:23:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:23:10","slug":"14-recklessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"14. Recklessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-218\" title=\"MensRea14\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MensRea14.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MensRea14.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MensRea14-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69f631efda1013004816983' value='69f631efda1013004816983'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69f631efda1013004816983' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69f631efda1013004816983' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69f631efda1013004816983' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 6: Mens Rea<br \/>Page 14: Recklessness<\/p>\n<p>And Clyde?<\/p>\n<p><em>Clyde<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He knew there were little kids nearby, he knew that he was throwing rat poison around, so he knew there was a risk that some little kid might eat some.<\/p>\n<p>But he did it anyway. He acted RECKLESSLY.<\/p>\n<p>This is someone whom society almost\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">certainly<\/span> wants to punish, now. He&#8217;s probably facing &#8220;manslaughter&#8221; charges, or something similar.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69f631efda1013004816983' 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-217","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\/217","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=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}