Posts Tagged ‘moral responsibility’

February 29. 2012 | Jim Silver

Are Psychopaths Criminally But Not Morally Responsible?

I just finished reading a very interesting article titled “Dangerous Psychopaths” written by Ken Levy, an Associate Professor at the LSU Law Center, in which he argues that although psychopaths may not be morally responsible for their actions, they should be held criminally responsible, and even subject to preventive detention under certain circumstances (preventive detention is essentially civil commitment based on a person’s dangerousness to themselves or others because of some mental…