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The Age of Culpability: Children and the Nature of Criminal Responsibility
Gideon Yaffe presents a theory of criminal responsibility according to which child criminals deserve leniency not because of their psychological, behavioural, or neural immaturity but because they are denied the vote. He argues that full shares of criminal punishment are deserved only by those who have a full share of say over the law.
| Author(s) | By Gideon Yaffe (Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, Yale Law School). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Paperback / softback |
| Pages | 256 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 12 Mar 2020 |
| Availability | Available |
Gideon Yaffe presents a theory of criminal responsibility according to which child criminals deserve leniency not because of their psychological, behavioural, or neural immaturity but because they are denied the vote. He argues that full shares of criminal punishment are deserved only by those who have a full share of say over the law.
Introduction 1: Immaturity and Reduce Culpability 2: Kids will be kids . . . until they grow out of it 3: Criminal Culpability 4: Desert for Wrongdoing 5: The Weight of a Legal Reason 6: Giving Kids a Break 7: Who Else is Owed a Break? 8: What Bre
Gideon Yaffe is Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at Yale. He is the author of Attempts: In the Philosophy of Action and the Criminal Law (OUP 2010), as well as books about John Locke and Thomas Reid. He also collaborates with ne
