The mind of the criminal : the role of developmental social cognition in criminal defense law /
"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"--
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012
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Table of Contents:
- A meeting of developmental social cognition and criminal jurisprudence and law
- Developmental social cognition and antisocial behavior : theory and science
- Substandard rational capacity and criminal responsibility
- Underdeveloped rationality and wrongdoing in youth
- Moral subrationality and the propensity for wrongdoing
- Provocation interpretational bias and heat-of-passion homicide
- Reacting to perceived threats : mistaken self-defense and duress
- Developmental social cognition, the effects of chronic abuse and trauma, and reactive homicide
- Toward a more psychologically informed approach to social rationality and excusing conditions in criminal law