Prof. Shen's New Research on Decoding Mental States Highlighted in The Crime Report

Professor Francis Shen's new research on how jurors decode criminal mental states was featured in The Crime Report at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. The forthcoming article, Decoding Guilty Minds: How Jurors Attribute Knowledge and Guilt, reports on new experiments finding that subjects’ intuitions about the level of culpability warranting criminal punishment diverge significantly from prevailing legal practice. Subjects tend to regard recklessness as a sufficient basis for punishment under circumstances where the legislatures and courts tend to require knowledge. The article was written in collaboration with co-authors in the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience.