When Nature and Nurture Collide: Early Childhood Trauma, Adult Crime, and the Limits of Criminal Law
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (610 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1611635004 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 318 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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. George School of Law, Mercer University. Blumoff is a Professor of Law at the Walter F. About the Author Theodore Y
. Theodore Y. Blumoff is a Professor of Law at the Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University
The work ends by drawing on the work of the philosopher John Rawls's well known ''Original Position,'' a thought experiment on the treatment of damaged children.This book should be of interest to anyone who teaches criminal law and procedure or is involved in the administration of criminal justice, including those individuals who provide social services to the incarcerated. This work examines the neuropsychological injuries suffered by seriously abused and neglected children, towards an explanation for why those children produce children who tend to abuse and neglect their own children and sometimes others. The book is structured in three parts, Part I engages the science of child development. Blumoff, who is trained in psychology and law, has spent the last decade trying to bring population-wide observations from the brain sciences to the jurisprudence
How do childhood wounds lead to adult criminal harms, and how can we prevent both? nathan Theodore Blumoff's book When Nature and Nurture Collide is a wise and compassionate essay that asks how we, as a society, should respond to persons who commit extremely abusive or harmful criminal acts, especially those persons whose brains have been scarred by the effects of severe abuse and neglect in their childhoods.I was introduced to Theodore Blumoff's work through his excellent chapter "T