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
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Free Will ◽  
The Public ◽  
Free Will Skepticism

Free Will Skepticism, Freedom, and Criminal Behavior

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farah Focquaert ◽  
Andrea L. Glenn ◽  
Adrian Raine
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Free Will ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Moral Enhancement ◽  
Public Health Perspective ◽  
Immoral Behavior ◽  
Free Will Skepticism

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.

Understanding the Public Health Implications of Prisoner Reentry in California: Summary

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lois M. Davis ◽  
Nancy Nicosia ◽  
Adrian Overton ◽  
Lisa Miyashiro ◽  
Kathryn Pitkin Derose ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Prisoner Reentry ◽  
Health Implications ◽  
The Public
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