Morality Influences How People Apply the Ignorance of the Law Defense.
In four empirical studies, we showed that laypeople apply the ignorance of the law defense differently depending on the perceived morality of the defendant's course of conduct at the time of the illegal act. Moral and neutral defendants who pled ignorance of the law were afforded leniency, whereas i...
| Publicado en: | Law & Society Review Vol. 41; no. 4; pp. 819 - 865 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
December 2007
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