The Ostrich Instruction: Deliberate Ignorance as a Criminal Mens Rea. Robbins, I. P. Technical Report ID 2784406, Social Science Research Network, Rochester, NY, 1990.
The Ostrich Instruction: Deliberate Ignorance as a Criminal Mens Rea [link]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
The criminal-law doctrine of deliberate ignorance, or "willful blindness," is an area that raises both legal and philosophical issues concerning the level of subjective conviction and objective evidence that constitutes knowledge. Professor Glanville Williams described willful blindness in the following terms:
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	type = {{SSRN} {Scholarly} {Paper}},
	title = {The {Ostrich} {Instruction}: {Deliberate} {Ignorance} as a {Criminal} {Mens} {Rea}},
	shorttitle = {The {Ostrich} {Instruction}},
	url = {https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2784406},
	abstract = {The criminal-law doctrine of deliberate ignorance, or "willful blindness," is an area that raises both legal and philosophical issues concerning the level of subjective conviction and objective evidence that constitutes knowledge. Professor Glanville Williams described willful blindness in the following terms:},
	language = {en},
	number = {ID 2784406},
	urldate = {2019-10-04},
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	author = {Robbins, Ira P.},
	year = {1990},
	keywords = {Model Penal Code, criminal law, willful blindness},
}

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