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Special Issue on Recklessness and Negligence

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This paper introduces the Special Issue on Recklessness and Negligence. It highlights the main issues and controversies that surround these concepts and then briefly introduces each of the papers that comprise the Special Issue.

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  1. School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Christopher Cowley

  2. School of Law, University of Reading, Reading, UK

    Beatrice Krebs

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Cowley, C., Krebs, B. Special Issue on Recklessness and Negligence. Criminal Law, Philosophy 14, 5–8 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-019-09519-3

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