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Is there a legal system or theory where punishment is proportional to the probability of an offence?
In common criminal law in order for a defendant to be punished, they must be found guilty beyond all reasonable doubt. Hence, there is a threshold for the probability of guilt, beyond which the ...
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Does severity of a punishment increase with potential reward?
I will defer to UK (where I live) and US (which more popularly understood) law.
I was thinking about paparazzi and Tabloids, and assumed charges for libel or privacy breaches often are worth risking ...
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