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Sep 2019
37m 21s

Thinking About Punishment and the Crimin...

Professor Leslie Garfield Tenzer
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In this episode... John Humbach, Professor of Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law discusses the notion that crime is caused by culpable mental states (such as intentions) and describes how criminal justice could be different if we stopped focusing so much on assigning "blame" and paid more attention to how we can best prevent crimes from happening in the ... Show More
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