The Emotional Brain and the Guilty Mind: Novel Paradigms of Culpability and Punishment Coppola Federica
The Emotional Brain and the Guilty Mind: Novel Paradigms of Culpability and Punishment Coppola Federica This book seeks to reframe the normative narrative of the 'culpable person' in American…
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The Emotional Brain and the Guilty Mind: Novel Paradigms of Culpability and Punishment Coppola Federica
This book seeks to reframe the normative narrative of the 'culpable person' in American criminal law through a more humanising lens. Hence, it suggests culpability notions that reflect a more contextualised view of human conduct, and argues that such revised notions are better suited to the principle of personal guilt. It embraces such a reframed narrative to revise the criteria of the current voluntarist architecture of culpability and to advance a paradigm of punishment that positions social rehabilitation as its core principle.The book constructs this narrative by considering behavioural and neuroscientific insights into the functions of emotions, and socio-environmental factors within moral behaviour in social settings.
Furthermore, it suggests a model of 'punishment' that values the dynamic power of change of individuals, and acknowledges the importance of social