WDW101Y1 Midterm: WDW365 test 1 Study Notes.docx
19 Apr 2012
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Richard boldt the construction of responsibility in the criminal law. Focus: chemically dependent actors should not be responsible for their actions, and criminal law must become more dualist. Topic a perspectives in the criminal law: all human understanding can be understood from two perspectives. Objective perspective conduct is always the product of some matrix of causal factors that necessary determines choice. Participant perspective regards the great bulk of human activity as having been produced through the agency of an individual"s free will: the participant perspective is generally given voice in the criminal law. Topic b dualist approach to freewill: criticism of the justice system stylized treatment of the human capacity for practical reasoning. Process of practical reasoning is when alternative courses of conduct are weighed and decisions are reached. This process is fully determined by causal factors beyond the autonomous control of the actor.
