Condemned To Be A Criminal. The Debate On Criminal Responsibility: From 19th Century italian Legal Science To Neuroscience

During the 19th century the concepts of liability changed radically in all areas…

In recent years some studies on the brain seem to show that every individual assumes…

Keywords: Criminal Liability, social criminal law, Positive School, determinism,…

Table of Contents: 1. The case of Phineas Gage and the crisis of the concept of criminal responsibility. – 2. The nature of the delinquent: a secret revealed. – 3. «He is like coffee, it excites but does not nourish»: from Lombroso to social criminal law. – 4. Public morality as a “guarantee” of criminal guilt.…