Responsibility and psychopathy Interfacing law psychiatry and philosophy 1st Edition by Luca Malatesti, John McMillan ISBN 0199551634 9780199551637

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ISBN 10: 0199551634

ISBN 13: 9780199551637 

Author: Luca Malatesti, John McMillan 

Psychopaths have emotional and rational impairments that can be expressed in persistent criminal behaviour. UK and US law has not traditionally excused disordered individuals for their crimes citing these impairments as a cause for their criminal behaviour. Until now, the discussion of whether psychopaths are morally responsible for their behaviour has usually taken place in the realm of philosophy. However, in recent years, this debate has been informed by scientific and psychiatric advancements, fundamentally so with the development of Robert Hare’s diagnostic tool, the Psychopathy Checklist. Responsibility and Psychopathy explores the moral responsibility of psychopaths. It engages with problems at the interface between law, psychiatry, and philosophy, and is divided into three parts offering relevant interdisciplinary background information to address this main problem. The first part discusses the public policy and legal responses to psychopathy. It offers an introduction to the central practical issue of how public policy should respond to psychopathy, providing insights for those arguing about the responsibility of psychopaths. The second part introduces recent scientific advancements in the classification, description, explanation, and treatment of psychopathy. The third part of the volume includes chapters covering the most significant dimensions of philosophical debate on the moral and criminal responsibility of psychopaths. Exploring one of the most contentious topics of our time, this book will be fascinating reading for psychiatrists, philosophers, criminologists, and lawyers.

Table of contents:

Part 1: Psychopathy and the Law

1. Psychopathy and criminal responsibility in historical perspective
2. Stabbing in the dark: English law relating to psychopathy
3. Psychopathy and the law: the United States experience
4. Policies, law, and psychopathy: a critical stance from political philosophy

Part 2: Psychopathy: A New Research Paradigm
5. Defending PCL-R
6. Psychopathy: assessment and forensic implications
7. Neuroimaging, genetics, and psychopathy: implications for the legal system
8. The treatment of psychopathy: clinical nihilism or steps in the right direction?

Part 3: The Responsibility of the Psychopathic Offender
9. Responsibility and psychopathy
10. Psychopathy and answerability
11. Psychopathy, responsibility, and the moral/conventional distinction
12. Rationalism, emotivism, and the psychopath
13. Reasons, emotion, and moral judgement in the psychopath
14. The inauthentic evaluative schemes of psychopaths and culpability
15. Intentional action, moral responsibility, and psychopaths
16. Will a stroke of neuroscience ever eradicate evil?

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