Is it wrong to criminalize and punish psychopaths?

Emotion Review

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 302-304

  Glenn, Andrea L ^a   Raine, Adrian ^a   Laufer, William S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

antisocial; brain; emotion; judgment; law; moral; psychopathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959926350     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073911402372     Document Type: Review

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