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Essay / Case Study on Criminal Guilt - 1583
Idiot questions and their answers during interrogations of police subjects" ( ), it is stated on page 93 "The question of "state of mind" at the time of the action, in law called mens rea (guilty mind), is essential to the category of crime of which S, (the perpetrator), will ultimately be accused: was it, with increasing degrees of intentionality, accidental, reckless , intentional or planned? If P (the interrogator) establishes some degree of intentionality on the part of S, then the offense becomes a more serious category of crime, and this information must be stated explicitly "for the record." Upon further examination of the perpetrator of the crime, their criminal intent, and their specific positive or negative emotions that may have influenced their actions through social or peer judgments. It is imperative that a “comprehensive and unbiased study of the law-emotion interface” (2011, p. 3) help determine which of the two intervening acts will determine the chain of causation.