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Responsibility and psychopathy

Responsibility and psychopathy

Interfacing law, psychiatry and philosophy

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Psychopaths have emotional and rational impairments that can be expressed in persistent criminal behaviour. UK and US law has not traditionally excused disordered individuals for their crimes citing these impairments as a cause for their criminal behaviour. Until now, the discussion of whether psychopaths are morally responsible for their behaviour has usually taken place in the realm of philosophy. However, in recent years, this debate has been informed by scientific andpsychiatric advancements, fundamentally so with the development of Robert Hares diagnostic tool, the Psychopathy Checklist. Responsibility and Psychopathy explores the moral responsibility of psychopaths. It engages with problems at the interface between law, psychiatry, and philosophy, and is divided into three parts offering relevant interdisciplinary background information to address this main problem. The first part discusses the public policy and legal responses to psychopathy. It offers an introduction to the central practical issue of how public policy should respond to psychopathy, providing insights forthose arguing about the responsibility of psychopaths. The second part introduces recent scientific advancements in the classification, description, explanation, and treatment of psychopathy. The third part of the volume includes chapters covering the most significant dimensions of philosophical debateon the moral and criminal responsibility of psychopaths. Exploring one of the most contentious topics of our time, this book will be fascinating reading for psychiatrists, philosophers, criminologists, and lawyers.
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OUP Oxford
83235
9780199551637
9780199551637

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Publication date
2010
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
340
Dimensions (mm)
159 x 234
Weight (g)
546
  • Introduction: interfacing law, philosophy and psychiatry; Psychopathy and the Law; Psychopathy and criminal responsibility in historical perspective; Stabbing in the dark: English law relating to psychopathy; Psychopathy and the law: the United States experience; Policies, law and psychopathy: a critical stance from political philosophy; Psychopathy: A New Research Paradigm; Defending PCL-R; Psychopathy: assessment and forensic implications; Neurodevelopmental bases of psychopathy: a review of brain imaging studies; The treatment of psychopathy: clinical nihilism or steps in the right direction?; The Responsibility of the Psychopathic Offender; Responsibility and psychopathy; Psychopathy and answerability; Psychopathy, responsibility and the moral/conventional distinction; Rationalism, emotivism, and the psychopath; Reasons, emotion, and moral judgment in the psychopath; The inauthentic evaluative schemes of psychopaths and culpability; Intentional action, moral responsibility and psychopaths; Will a stroke of neuroscience ever eradicate evil?; Conclusions: psychopathy and responsibility, a rejoinder;
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