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RESEARCH PAPER NO. 02-12
DIMENSIONS OF NEGLIGENCE IN CRIMINAL AND TORT LAW
H W. SIMONS
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Dimensions of Negligence in Criminal and Tort Law
by
h W. Simons*
September 10, 2001
I. Introduction ...............................................................................................................2
II. The standard tort conception of negligence: unreasonably risky conduct .................4
III. The modern criminal law conception of negligence: unreasonable inadvertence and
unreasonable mistake.......................................................................................................6
IV. Comparing the standard tort and modern criminal law conceptions........................10
V. A plete picture of negligence in tort and criminal law...............................14
A. When criminal law employs a conduct conception of negligence....................14
B. When tort law employs a cognitive conception of negligence .........................19
C. Other varieties of negligence...........................................................................22
VI. Distinct legal functions of the negligence concept ...................................................27
A. Express the legal norm in the form of a standard rather than a rule ...............28
B. Personify fault..................................................................................................33
C. Empower the trier of fact to give content to the legal standard .......................39
D. Create a secondary legal norm parasitic on a primary legal norm ..................41
E. Disti