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• Title:Emotions and culpability : how the law is at odds with psychology, jurors, and itself / Norman J. Finkel, W. Gerrod Parrott.
  
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• Author/Creator:Finkel, Norman J.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Parrott, W. Gerrod.
  
• Published/Created:Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, ©2006.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: K5065 .F56 2006 (LC)
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Guilt (Law)
  Law--Psychological aspects.
  Emotions (Philosophy)
  
• Description:xv, 312 p. ; 26 cm.
  
• Series:Law and public policy.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-284) and indexes.
  
• ISBN:1591474167
  
• Contents:Ch. 1. When the law's story of emotion and culpability is at odds with human nature
  Ch. 2. Within a normative law, can psychology's place still be defended?
  Ch. 3. Emotions in folk psychology
  Ch. 4. Emotions in academic psychology : implications for culpability and the law
  Ch. 5. Emotions in context : time, function, and type
  Ch. 6. Anomalies in murder : conflicting views of malice, emotions, and motive
  Ch. 7. Manslaughter's failing theories of mitigation : emotions bound by objective rules, or an unrestrained subjectivity?
  Ch. 8. Insanity I : the prototypic, yet problematic, excusing condition
  Ch. 9. Insanity II : its disconnect, "defect of reason," and incapacity
  Ch. 10. Where self-defense's justification blurs into excuse : a defensible theory, with fitting verdicts, for mistaken self-defense
  Ch. 11. Moving the law toward a coherent emotion and culpability story
  Ch. 12. reformulation, and concluding recommendations.