Affirmative duties and the limits of sel
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Larry Alexander
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Article
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1996
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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American criminal law reflects the absence of any general duty of Good Samaritanism. Nonetheless, there are some circumstances in which it imposes affirmative duties to aid others. In those circumstances, however, the duty to aid is canceled whenever aiding subjects the actor to a certain level of r