Identify and briefly explain the four culpable mental states used in Texas criminal law
What will be an ideal response?
Texas criminal law uses the following four culpable mental states:
• Intent: The offender's conscious desire or goal is to engage in the behavior or cause the result.
• Knowledge:The offender is aware of his behavior or that his behavior is reasonably likely to cause the result. The offender is aware of the circumstances surrounding his situation.
• Recklessness:The offender's conscious desire is to engage in the behavior but is also aware of, but disregards, the risk that the behavior may cause a harmful result. Such harmful result in unintended.
• Criminal negligence:The offender ought to have been aware that his conduct would produce a harmful result.
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