Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction

PART I: Foundations

Chapter 1: Criminal Law Basics and the Willful Ignorance Doctrine
Chapter 2: What Is Criminal Culpability?

Part II: From Willful Ignorance to a Theory of Equal Culpability Imputation

Chapter 3: The Scope of the Willful Ignorance Doctrine (I)
Chapter 4: The Scope of the Willful Ignorance Doctrine (II): The Duty to Reasonably Inform Oneself
Chapter 5: Toward a Normative Theory of Equal Culpability Imputation

Part III: Beyond Willful Ignorance

Chapter 6: Iterated Reckless Ignorance as a Substitute for knowledge
Chapter 7: Substituting Willful Ignorance for Purpose?
Chapter 8: Sub-Willful Motivated Ignorance
Chapter 9: Corporations Keeping Themselves in the Dark

Conclusion

About the Author

Alexander Sarch is a Reader (Associate Professor) and Interim Head of School at the University of Surrey, School of Law.

Reviews

"This is an excellent book. It's clear and well-argued, and any philosopher working on wilful ignorance and other culpability imputation principles is going to have to engage with it." -- Alexander Greenberg, Department of Philosophy, University College London, Journal of Moral Philosophy
"The paucity of books on legal fiction is in part due to the density of the concept, but Sarch flushes out some of that density through deliberative and clear prose. An important book in the field, Criminally Ignorant is best suited to legal scholars. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." -- A. R. S. Lorenz, Choice