PHIL 2060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Legal Liability, Mens Rea, Actus Reus
9 May 2016
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Liability- when legal rules require certain conduct, these rules are backed by certain sanctions. When you are in a situation in which you are needed to be backed by a certain sanction, you are said to be legally liable. Negative sanctions and positive sanctions (positive sanctions are very rare) Criminal liability (penal) - the purpose of criminal liability is to punish wrongdoers. Criminal liability is the major division of public law. Definition: any act or omission prohibited by public law, committed without justification, and made punishable by the state in a judicial proceeding in its own name. Public wrongs (thought to be too serious, thought to be too important than to leave having it compensated for, needs more punishment) some crimes don"t have victims- the liability is to punish the wrongdoer. Civil law- private parties bring legal action against other private parties can be either remedial or penal.
