Criminal Proof: Fixed or Flexible?

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Abstract Should we use the same standard of proof to adjudicate guilt for murder and petty theft? Why not tailor crime? These relatively neglected questions cut heart central issues in philosophy law. This paper scrutinises whether ought all criminal cases, contrast with a flexible approach that uses different standards crimes. I reject consequentialist arguments radically proof, instead defending modestly on non-consequentialist grounds. The system defend is one which should impose higher crimes attract more severe punishments. proposal, although apparently revisionary, accords plausible theory concerning epistemology legal judgments role they play society.

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عنوان ژورنال: The Philosophical Quarterly

سال: 2023

ISSN: ['0031-8094', '1467-9213']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqad001