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Tracing Culpable Ignorance

open access: yesLogos & Episteme, 2011
In this paper, I respond to the following argument which several authors have presented. If we are culpable for some action, we act either from akrasia or from culpable ignorance. However, akrasia is highly exceptional and it turns out that tracing culpable ignorance leads to a vicious regress. Hence, we are hardly ever culpable for our actions.
openaire   +2 more sources

Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion.
Imogen Knox
wiley   +1 more source

Problems of guilt, culpability, and active repentance in the main criminal legal systems of the modern world (doctrinal and legislative aspects)

open access: yesУченые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2019
In this paper, various aspects of guilt and culpability, active repentance have been considered through the prism of implemented norms, the doctrine of law and lawmaking.
I.A. Tarkhanov
doaj   +1 more source

In Defence of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
wiley   +1 more source

FINANCIALIZED VIOLENCE IN TORONTO’S RENTAL MARKET: Eviction Rates in Majority Black Renter Communities

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract While the geographical distribution of eviction filings has been explored in Toronto, the intersection of rental housing financialization, race and eviction remains underexplored. Financial actors and their intermediaries, who fuel the eviction crisis in economically disenfranchised Black renter communities, exert significant influence over ...
Nemoy Lewis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Peligrosidad criminal e individualización judicial de la pena

open access: yesNuevo Foro Penal, 2016
Any criminal system gives the judge some discretion to impose the sentence the convicted offender. Sometimes the defendant revealed that he will continue committing crimes in the future.
Emiliano Borja Jiménez
doaj   +1 more source

REPRESENTING POLLUTION AT THE AGRARIAN–URBAN FRONTIER: Participatory Documentary Film‐Making in Bar Elias, Lebanon

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract The Beqaa Valley in Lebanon has become increasingly polluted, and residents are attributing illness to improper waste disposal and dumping. This article explores local epistemologies of pollution’s causes and effects in three films, which were researched and produced by local residents of Bar Elias, a small town in the Beqaa, which has rapidly
Hannah Sender   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supposed Corpses and Correspondence

open access: yesFree & Equal
The correspondence requirement is a fundamental doctrinal principle in Anglo-American criminal law.  It maintains that, in general, a particular relation between mens rea and actus reus is necessary for liability.
Elise Sugarman
doaj   +2 more sources

Broken Promises: The Case of Mothers of Srebrenica vs. The State of the Netherlands

open access: yes, 2015
Critical discourse analysis of the legal proceedings of the Mothers of Srebrenica case brought against the UN and the Dutch government.
Mohr, Victoria E.
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Prophets With Enchantment: Framing Christian Climate Activism

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues for a re‐enchantment of studies of contemporary climate change activism. It focuses upon Christian climate activists in the UK and how they are reinterpreting their theological beliefs in ways that mobilise religious communities.
Gemma Edwards, Finlay Malcolm
wiley   +1 more source

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