Modelling last-act attempted crime in criminal law

In the court of law, a person can be punished for attempting to commit a crime. An open issue in the study of Artificial Intelligence and Law is whether the law of attempts could be formally modelled. There are distinct legal rules for determining attempted crime whereas the last-act rule (also call...

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Published inJournal of applied non-classical logics Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 327 - 357
Main Authors Pooksook, Jiraporn, Dung, Phan Minh, Satoh, Ken, Sartor, Giovanni
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Taylor & Francis 02.10.2019
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Attempted crime
last-act (or proximity)-rule
structured argumentation
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Summary:In the court of law, a person can be punished for attempting to commit a crime. An open issue in the study of Artificial Intelligence and Law is whether the law of attempts could be formally modelled. There are distinct legal rules for determining attempted crime whereas the last-act rule (also called proximity rule) represents the strictest approach. In this paper, we provide a formal model of the last-act rule using structured argumentation.
ISSN:1166-3081
1958-5780
DOI:10.1080/11663081.2019.1647652