Legal Insanity and the Brain
Subtitle: Science, Law and European Courts
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781849467919
Subjects: Neurosciences; Criminal psychology; Forensic psychology; Mentally ill offenders; Science and law; Law, europe
Description: This landmark publication offers a unique comparative and interdisciplinary study of criminal insanity and neuroscience. Criminal law theories and ideologies which underpin the regulation of criminal insanity have always been the subject of controversy. The history of criminal insanity is characterised by conceptual and empirical tension between two disciplinary realms: the law and the mind sciences. The authors in this anthology explore in depth the state of the art of legal insanity and the numerous intricate, fascinating, pioneering and sophisticated questions raised by the integration of different criminal law and behaviour theories, diverse disciplines and methodologies, in a genuinely interdisciplinary perspective. This volume will serve as a practical guide for the comparative legal scholar and the judge, as well as stimulating scholarly reading for the neuroscientist, the social scientist and the philosopher with interdisciplinary scientific interests