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Titel: Punisher's Brain
Zustand: New
Subtitle: The Evolution of Judge and Jury
EAN: 9781107038066
ISBN: 9781107038066
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Produktart: Gebundene Ausgabe
Release date: 14/04/2014
Description: Why do we punish, and why do we forgive? Are these learned behaviors, or is there something deeper going on? This book argues that there is indeed something deeper going on, and that our essential response to the killers, rapists, and other wrongdoers among us has been programmed into our brains by evolution. Using evidence and arguments from neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Morris B. Hoffman traces the development of our innate drives to punish - and to forgive - throughout human history. He describes how, over time, these innate drives became codified into our present legal systems and how the responsibility and authority to punish and forgive was delegated to one person - the judge - or a subset of the group - the jury. Hoffman shows how these urges inform our most deeply held legal principles and how they might animate some legal reforms.
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellungsland und -region: GB
Höhe: 235mm
Länge: 158mm
Breite: 28mm
Gewicht: 660g
Autor: Morris B. Hoffman
Genre: Law & Politics
Buchreihe: Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society

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