| Autor: |
Lisa Claydon |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
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| Zdroj: |
Neurolaw ISBN: 9783030692766 |
| Popis: |
This chapter will examine the problems posed for the law when it faces arguments based on new understandings of behaviour in the courtroom. It will particularly examine the issue of whether the legal conception of how coercion and control may partially excuse those who commit murder as a result of the coercive and controlling behaviour of others with whom they are in intimate relationships. It will examine the distinct approaches taken by the legislature and the courts and ask if more use of expert understandings of behaviour drawing on the cognitive sciences would assist. It is often said that law has a folk psychological understanding of human behaviour; the chapter will consider whether and how the viewpoint of the cognitive sciences might be utilized in the critique of the English law to refocus the “aim” of the law. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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