mens rea

基本解释

Of course, society sometimes cares about motives — mens rea and scienter are common considerations in legal matters.
当然，社会有时需要关注动机——犯罪意图和主观故意是法律问题常见的考虑。
In many criminal cases, the common-law requirement that a defendant must have a mens rea (ie, he must or should know that he is doing wrong) has been weakened or erased.
在许多刑事案件中，惯例法所要求的被告人应该有犯罪动机（如，他必须或者应该知道自己现在所做的事是不正确的）的规定已经在逐步地弱化或移除。
For starters, the statutes should re-written to require proof of mens rea -- evidence that an individual knew what he or she was doing was wrong and still purposely chose to violate the law.
第一步，就是要重新撰写议会章程来要求犯罪意图的证据--能够让普通人分清对错但仍然故意选择触犯法律的证据。

With bloated federal legislation and without mens rea you can accuse most people of something or other, says Mr Silverglate.
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Securities-fraud cases--especially criminal ones--are fundamentally different because they require the jury to find executives acted with mens rea, or guilty intent.
FORBES: Guilty, But Not Over
And so it took the case of an alleged cocaine dealer to bring the issue to the fore, and to begin the long process of rescuing mens rea from seeming irrelevance.
FORBES: "How a Floridian busted for cocaine possession may save future white collar defendants"

a criminal intention or knowledge that an act is wrong. It is assumed to be an ingredient of all criminal offences although some minor statutory offences are punishable irrespective of it &rarrcompare actus reus