Morally excused but socially excluded: Denying agency through the defense of mental impairment.

Defendants can deny they have agency, and thus responsibility, for a crime by using a defense of mental impairment. We argue that although this strategy may help defendants evade blame, it may carry longer-term social costs, as lay people's perceptions of a person's agency might determine...
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Melissa de Vel-Palumbo [verfasserIn]

Rose Ferguson [verfasserIn]

Chelsea Schein [verfasserIn]

Melissa Xue-Ling Chang [verfasserIn]

Brock Bastian [verfasserIn]

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E-Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

2022

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In: PLoS ONE - Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2007, 17(2022), 7, p e0272061

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volume:17 ; year:2022 ; number:7, p e0272061

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DOI / URN:

10.1371/journal.pone.0272061

Katalog-ID:

DOAJ020015321

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