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The mind of the criminal : (Record no. 11965)

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INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9780521513760 (hardback)
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 0521513766 (hardback)
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number KM506.3.F662012
Item number 08145168
MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Fontaine, Reid Griffith,
TITLE STATEMENT
Title The mind of the criminal :
Remainder of title the role of developmental social cognition in criminal defense law /
Statement of responsibility, etc Reid Griffith Fontaine
Copyright Date
Place of publication New York :
Name of publisher Cambridge University Press,
Year of publication or production 2012
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xv, 264 pages ;
FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Machine generated contents note: 1. A meeting of developmental social cognition and criminal jurisprudence and law; 2. Developmental social cognition and antisocial behavior: theory and science; 3. Substandard rational capacity and criminal responsibility; 4. Underdeveloped rationality and wrongdoing in youth; 5. Moral subrationality and the propensity for wrongdoing; 6. Provocation interpretational bias and heat of passion homicide; 7. Reacting to perceived threats: mistaken self-defense and duress; 8. Developmental social cognition, the effects of chronic abuse and trauma, and reactive homicide; 9. Toward a more psychologically-informed approach to social rationality and excusing conditions in criminal law
SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "This book discusses the excusing nature of both traditional and nontraditional criminal law defenses and questions the structure of these defenses based on scientific findings from social and developmental psychology"--
SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "In American criminal law, if a defendant demonstrates that they lack certain psychological capabilities, they may be excused of blame and punishment for wrongdoing. However, criminal defense law often fails to consider the developmental science of individual differences in ability and functioning that may inform jurisprudential issues of rational capacity and responsibility in criminal law. This book discusses the excusing nature of a range of both traditional and nontraditional criminal law defenses and questions the structure of these defenses based on scientific findings from social and developmental psychology. This book explores how research on individual differences in the development of social perception, judgment, and decision making explain why some youths and adults develop psychological tendencies that favor criminal behavior, and considers how developmental science can guide the understanding of criminal excuses and affirmative defense law. "--
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Defense (Criminal procedure)
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Insanity (Law)
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Criminal psychology
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