Insisting on depression that functions as an excuse

Using Charity Performance Metrics as an Excuse Not to Give

There is an increasing pressure to “give wisely.” In a series of experiments, this paper indeed confirms that individuals give less to charities with lower performance metrics. Part of this reduction in giving, however, appears to be driven by individuals overweighting their dislike of low performance metrics as an excuse not to give. Excuse-driven responses to performance metrics persist even ...

Mental illness as an excuse for civil wrongs.

insanity as an excuse in iranian and english law

if someone committed a crime while insane, in different legal systems, it is accepted that deal with him should be different from people with mental health and in the case of the existence of other circumstances, he is recognized without criminal responsibility. this is commonly where the wrongdoer suffers from complete mental disorder, not partial mental disorder. the islamic punishment code 1...

Insisting on Persistent Mobile Agent Systems

In this paper we continue arguing that persistence is a fundamental requirement to support the development of next-generation agent-based applications. After a general overview of mobility and persistence to clarify the main issues discussed in the paper, we propose a tentative list of facilities that should be supported by persistent mobile agent systems. The main contribution of the paper is ...

Peter Westen an Attitudinal Theory of Excuse

The mother lode of criminal responsibility scholarship is a unitary theory of criminal excuses, that is, a persuasive normative account of why the criminal law adjudges actors to be blameless despite their having engaged in prohibited conduct. The law’s other criminal defenses do not readily lend themselves to unitary normative accounts or, if they do, they rest on normative accounts that are s...