Reconciling the opposing effects of neurobiological evidence on criminal sentencing judgments.

Legal theorists have characterized physical evidence of brain dysfunction as a double-edged sword, wherein the very quality that reduces the defendant's responsibility for his transgression could simultaneously increase motivations to punish him by virtue of his apparently increased dangerousne...

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Main Authors: Corey H Allen, Karina Vold, Gidon Felsen, Jennifer S Blumenthal-Barby, Eyal Aharoni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210584