Better Not to Know....more. On the Doctrine of Provoked Blindness to the Facts in Criminal Law

Abstract

Based on the article by Ragués, this paper compares the doctrine of deliberate ignorance with the doctrine of provoked or deliberate blindness, which attempts to reach the same conclusions, but not by working on the requirements of the legal system regarding what must be known in order to respond in a fraudulent manner, but by changing the moment of "intentionality". Through such a change, it is understood that the subject who deliberately or intentionally provokes his own blindness, because it is in his interest to facilitate or make his moral decision more comfortable, is treated as the one who intentionally or deliberately carries out the criminal act.