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The Mind of the Criminal\n\nThe Role of Developmental Social Cognition in Criminal Defense Law\n\nDiscusses the excusing nature of traditional and non-traditional criminal law defenses and questions the structure of these based on scientific findings.\n\nReid Griffith Fontaine (Author)\n\n9781107673854 (SKU 3291337), Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 6 March 2014\n\n282 pages\n22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.38 kg\n\nIn American criminal law, if a defendant demonstrates that they lack certain psychological capabilities, they may be excused of blame and punishment for wrongdoing. However, criminal defense law often fails to consider the developmental science of individual differences in ability and functioning that may inform jurisprudential issues of rational capacity and responsibility in criminal law. This book discusses the excusing nature of a range of both traditional and non-traditional criminal law defenses and questions the structure of these defenses base]