The Christian Foundations of Criminal Responsibility: A Philosophical Study of Legal ReasoningA treatise on the medieval and Christian foundation of common law, this work argues that intellectual sources for the concept known in criminal law as intention, or mens rea, owe a debt to various Christian writings and philosophy. |
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