What people consider to be fair and just today are in line with the laws of ancient Mesopotamia and the Tang Dynasty in China – suggesting that these intuitions are part of human nature.
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Children are still being held in police cells and juvenile detention for low-range offences, under alarming conditions. Here’s how their mental health and future prospects suffer.
How do jurors use different kinds of information about mental illness when making sentencing decisions? An experiment finds that neurobiological evidence could harm or help defendants.
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Professor of Criminology, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Criminology, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Oklahoma State University
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Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, University of Central Florida
