{"id":234,"date":"2012-10-17T23:38:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T03:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=234"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:24:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:24:55","slug":"19-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"19. Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-235\" title=\"Culpability02\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Culpability02.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Culpability02.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Culpability02-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a1405b241f016094359700' value='6a1405b241f016094359700'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a1405b241f016094359700' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a1405b241f016094359700' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a1405b241f016094359700' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 7: Axes of Evil<br \/>Page 2: Responsibility<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s\u00a0 purely intentional theft, so on the mens rea scale the kid is as culpable as can be. And yet few would agree that the toddler committed a crime.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not so much a question of culpability as it is one of\u00a0<strong>RESPONSIBILITY.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Society doesn&#8217;t want the State to punish a child who could not have known what society&#8217;s rules were in the first place.<\/p>\n<p><em>The State speaking to reader, holding her big freaking hammer<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>THE STATE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The parents can discipline the kid all they want, however. (Within reason)<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-6a1405b241f016094359700' 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":[5,4,16,18,17,19],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-law","category-culpability","category-uncategorized","tag-crime","tag-criminal-law","tag-culpability","tag-liability","tag-mens-rea","tag-responsibility"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","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=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}