Retributivism, free will skepticism and the public health-quarantine model: replies to Corrado, Kennedy, Sifferd, Walen, Pereboom and Shaw

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-215
Author(s):  
Gregg D Caruso
Author(s):  
Farah Focquaert ◽  
Andrea L. Glenn ◽  
Adrian Raine

In Chapter 13, the authors address the issue of free will skepticism and criminal behavior, asking how we should, as a society, deal with criminal behavior in the current era of neuroexistentialism and if our belief in free will is essential to adequately addressing it, or if neurocriminology offer a new way of addressing crime without resorting to backward-looking notions of moral responsibility and guilt. They argue for a neurocriminological approach to “moral answerability” and forward-looking claims of responsibility that focus on the moral betterment or moral enhancement of individuals prone to criminal behavior and on reparative measures toward victims, placed within a broader public health perspective of human behavior. Within this framework, neurocriminology approaches to criminal behavior may provide specific guidance within a broader moral enhancement framework. Rather than undermining current criminal justice practices, the free will skeptics’ approach can draw on neurocriminological findings to reduce immoral behavior.


Author(s):  
Lois M. Davis ◽  
Nancy Nicosia ◽  
Adrian Overton ◽  
Lisa Miyashiro ◽  
Kathryn Pitkin Derose ◽  
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