Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-19-2011
Abstract
Some believe that genetics threatens privacy and autonomy and will eviscerate the concept of human nature. Despite the astonishing research advances, however, none of these dire predictions and no radical transformation of the law have occurred.
Keywords
Criminal law and responsibility, psychology, genetic research, the brain and behavior, human nature, mens rea, causation, excuse, genes, compatibilism and determinism, mental states
Publication Title
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Repository Citation
Morse, Stephen J., "Genetics and criminal responsibility" (2011). Faculty Scholarship. 375.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship/375
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Publication Citation
15 Trends in Cognitive Sciences 378 (Sept. 2011).