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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Legal Insanity and the Brain: Science Law and European Courts 2016 by Edited by Dr Sofia Moratti Edited by Professor Dennis Patterson
This landmark publication offers a unique comparative and interdisciplinary study of criminal insanity and neuroscience. Criminal policy theories and ideologies which underpin the regulation of criminal insanity have always been the subject of controversy. The history of criminal insanity is characterised by constant conceptual and empirical tension between two disciplinary realms: the law and mind science. The authors in this anthology explore in depth the state of the art of legal insanity and the numerous intricate fascinating pioneering and sophisticated questions raised by the integration of different criminal law and behaviour theories diverse disciplines and methodologies in a genuinely interdisciplinary perspective.