Innocence is a term that describes the lack of guilt of an individual, with respect to a crime. It can also refer to a state of unknowing, where one's experience is lesser, in either a relative view to social peers, or by an absolute comparison to a more common normative scale. In contrast to ignorance, it is generally viewed as a positive term, connoting a blissfully positive view of the world. Guilt is primarily an emotion experienced by people who believe they have done something wrong. ...

In some cases, the term of "innocence" connotes a pejorative meaning, where an assumed level of experience dictates common discoure or baseline qualifications for entry into another, different, social experience. Since experience is the prime factor in a point of view, innocence is often also used to connote an ignorance or lack of personal experience. Look up pejorative in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Perspective in theory of cognition is the choice of a context or a reference (or the result of this choice) from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience, cohesively forming a coherent belief, typically for comparing with another. ... Look up Experience in Wiktionary, the free dictionary This article discusses the general concept of experience. ...

Experience

Differences in experience can exist between generations as well, as in the case of access to education, material resources, prosperity, social interaction, moral development, dealing with conflicts, etc. Generations redirects here. ...

Children are usually considered to be innocent but they lose this attribute through maturity.

External links

• Innocent In Prison Project