This article examines the concept of deliberate ignorance in the criminal sphere and its applicability to the crime of money laundering in Peru, particularly in relation to the legislative formula ‘should be presumed’. Through the analysis of malice and its different manifestations, doctrinal tensions are explored between the classic conception of malice and the possibility of imputing criminal liability to individuals who, without direct knowledge of the unlawfulness of their conduct, have decided to remain in a state of intentional ignorance.Case law and doctrinal precedents are studied, both in comparative and national law, to determine whether deliberate ignorance can be equated to malice aforethought and, consequently, used as a criterion of subjective attribution in the context of the crime of money laundering. In particular, the article analyzes how the absence of an express d...

This article examines the concept of deliberate ignorance in the criminal sphere and its applicability to the crime of money laundering in Peru, particularly in relation to the legislative formula ‘should be presumed’. Through the analysis of malice and its different manifestations, doctrinal tensions are explored between the classic conception of malice and the possibility of imputing criminal liability to individuals who, without direct knowledge of the unlawfulness of their conduct, have decided to remain in a state of intentional ignorance.Case law and doctrinal precedents are studied, both in comparative and national law, to determine whether deliberate ignorance can be equated to malice aforethought and, consequently, used as a criterion of subjective attribution in the context of the crime of money laun...

La presente tesis de investigación tuvo como problemática a la institución dogmática de la ignorancia deliberada en la fórmula legislativa “debía presumir” del delito de lavado de activos en el Perú, teniendo para ello como categorías a la “ignorancia deliberada” y al delito de “lavado de activos” respectivamente. En ese sentido, el objetivo de la tesis radicó en analizar sí es aplicable la ignorancia deliberada en la fórmula legislativa “debía presumir” en el delito de lavado de activos en nuestro país. Asimismo, sobre el diseño empleado se tiene que la investigación se realizó bajo el enfoque cualitativo, de tipo básico, a nivel descriptivoexplicativo y bajo un diseño no experimental de tipo correlacional. En consecuencia, desde nuestra concepción, llegamos a la conclusión principal que a la ignorancia deliberada le corresponde ser aplicada en el Per...

This article examines the concept of deliberate ignorance in the criminal sphere and its applicability to the crime of money laundering in Peru, particularly in relation to the legislative formula ‘should be presumed’. Through the analysis of malice and its different manifestations, doctrinal tensions are explored between the classic conception of malice and the possibility of imputing criminal liability to individuals who, without direct knowledge of the unlawfulness of their conduct, have decided to remain in a state of intentional ignorance.Case law and doctrinal precedents are studied, both in comparative and national law, to determine whether deliberate ignorance can be equated to malice aforethought and, consequently, used as a criterion of subjective attribution in the context of the crime of money laun...