Responsibility, Control, and the Psychopathic Personality.pdf

Argues for a theory of legal responsibility that shows the psychopath, not able to control his actions owing to lack of a conscience (superego) stemming from deprivation of love early in life, cannot be held responsible for his behavior as the concept is normally understood, thus creating the paradox that one who commits the most heinous of crimes cannot, theoretically, be properly punished for them

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Work Title Responsibility, Control, and the Psychopathic Personality.pdf
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Creators
  1. Sanford G. Thatcher
Keyword
  1. psychopathy
  2. responsibility
  3. legal philosophy
License Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
Work Type Research Paper
Publisher
  1. unpublished
Publication Date April 28, 1966
Subject
  1. Psychopathy
  2. Legal philosophy
  3. Responsibility
Language
  1. English
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  1. paper prepared for graduate seminar on The Theory of Responsibility taught by Joel Feinberg at Columbia University (in which Derek Parfit was also a participant as a fellow graduate student)
Geographic Area
  1. Manhattan, New York, United States
Deposited January 05, 2014

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