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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 some of th...

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Autores principales: de Vel-Palumbo, Melissa, Ferguson, Rose, Schein, Chelsea, Chang, Melissa Xue-Ling, Bastian, Brock
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9321370/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35881629
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272061