The Emotional Brain and the Guilty Mind - 9781509944569

The Emotional Brain and the Guilty MindNovel Paradigms of Culpability and Punishment\nAuthor(s): Federica Coppola\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Hart Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781509944569, 978-1509944569\nSynopsis\nThis book seeks to reframe the normative narrative of the culpable person in American criminal law through a more humanising lens. It embraces such a reframed narrative to revise the criteria of the current voluntarist architecture of culpability and to advance a paradigm of punishment that positions social rehabilitation as its core principle. \n\nThe book constructs this narrative by considering behavioural and neuroscientific insights into the functions of emotions, and socio-environmental factors within moral behaviour in social settings. Hence, it suggests culpability notions that reflect a more contextualised view of human conduct, and argues that such revised notions are better suited to the principle of personal guil.