Diminished responsibility

Diminished Rationality, Diminished Responsibility

Less guilty by reason of adolescence: developmental immaturity, diminished responsibility, and the juvenile death penalty.

The authors use a developmental perspective to examine questions about the criminal culpability of juveniles and the juvenile death penalty. Under principles of criminal law, culpability is mitigated when the actor's decision-making capacity is diminished, when the criminal act was coerced, or when the act was out of character. The authors argue that juveniles should not be held to the same sta...

Responsibility

?2.25 45s Philosophical discussions of responsibility , freedom of the will and such subjects seem often to stand at an enormous distance from the more immediate problems of psychiatry and the law. That they should stand at some distance is inevitable and no bad thing, but to keep them too far apart for too long has, among other bad effects, the rather paradoxical one of making both parties con...

Self-enhancement diminished.

Self-enhancement is a positive bias in self-perception, which may imply error. However, conventional measures of self-enhancement are difference scores that do not distinguish a positive bias from a self-enhancement error, that is, they fail to identify those individuals who hold an irrationally or inaccurately positive view of themselves. We propose 2 new measures to separate error from bias. ...

Diminished Synthesis of an

hemoglobins there is usually less than 50% of the mutant hemoglobin present in peripheral blood. The synthetic rates of a-chain mutants compared to a' have not been reported to date. In this study the production of a'and at-chains has been measured in peripheral blood and bone marrow of two patients with approximately 30% hemoglobin I, an a-chain abnormality (ale lye -* 1U). The results suggest...