SCHAUER, FREDERICK - In: Utilitas 23 (2011) 04, pp. 363-379
In the <italic>Principles of the Penal Code</italic>, Jeremy Bentham described offences that he labelled presumed or evidentiary. The conduct penalized under such offences is punished not because it is intrinsically wrong, but because it probabilistically indicates the presence of an intrinsic wrong. Bentham was...