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Abstract

Acquisitions coming from cognitive neuroscience about the way our mind works and the close link between mind and brain require both to the lawyer in general, but even more to the criminal lawyer, to ask himself some basic questions about the correspondence between the current criminal law and the modern idea of human being.

In fact, a criminal law that aspires to be truly democratic, it is to say that wishes to consider the human being as end in himself and not as here mean (Kant), it will not (be) contemplated without an accurate knowledge of the man himself.

Therefore, the question is whether the acquisitions of neuroscience—virtually putting in crisis the traditional categories of criminal law, such as free will—can also put in crisis the traditional categories of criminal law, or whether they require a serious afterthought of their own.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Fiandaca (1981).

  2. 2.

    Mantovani (2007).

  3. 3.

    Bandes (2009).

  4. 4.

    Jones (2006).

  5. 5.

    Goodenough (2009).

  6. 6.

    Forza (2009).

  7. 7.

    Jones (2006).

  8. 8.

    Hoffman (2006).

  9. 9.

    O’Hara (2006).

  10. 10.

    Garland (2004).

  11. 11.

    Morse (2004, 2009).

  12. 12.

    Frankel (2004).

  13. 13.

    Damasio (1995), p. 20.

  14. 14.

    Boella (2008).

  15. 15.

    Bianchi (2009).

  16. 16.

    Morse (2009).

  17. 17.

    Bertolino (2008).

  18. 18.

    Bianchi (2009).

  19. 19.

    Garland (2004).

  20. 20.

    Greene and Cohen (2006).

  21. 21.

    Morse (2004).

  22. 22.

    Garland (2004).

  23. 23.

    Tancredi (2004).

  24. 24.

    Gulotta (2009).

  25. 25.

    Boella (2008).

  26. 26.

    Legrenzi and Umiltà (2009).

  27. 27.

    Forza (2009).

  28. 28.

    Gazzaniga and Steven (2004).

  29. 29.

    Greene and Cohen (2006).

  30. 30.

    Garland (2004).

  31. 31.

    Morse (2009).

  32. 32.

    Gazzaniga and Steven (2004).

  33. 33.

    Suitas is referred to the conscience and the will required by Article 42 of the Italian Penal Code.

  34. 34.

    Gazzaniga and Steven (2004).

  35. 35.

    Santosuosso and Bottalico (2009).

  36. 36.

    Santosuosso (2009).

  37. 37.

    Spranger (2009).

  38. 38.

    Maroney (2006).

  39. 39.

    Santosuosso and Bottalico (2009).

  40. 40.

    Bertolino (2008).

  41. 41.

    Spranger (2009).

  42. 42.

    Bertolino (2008).

  43. 43.

    Fiandaca (1981).

  44. 44.

    Fiandaca (1981).

  45. 45.

    Bertolino (2008).

  46. 46.

    Eusebi (1983).

  47. 47.

    Bertolino (2008).

  48. 48.

    Rocco (1913).

  49. 49.

    Bertolino (2008).

  50. 50.

    Terracina (2011), p. 193.

  51. 51.

    Zak (2006).

  52. 52.

    Goodenough and Prehn (2005).

  53. 53.

    Stake (2006).

  54. 54.

    Goodenough (2009).

  55. 55.

    Boella (2008).

  56. 56.

    Arangio-Ruiz (1984).

  57. 57.

    O’Hara (2006).

  58. 58.

    Chrovat and McCabe (2006).

  59. 59.

    Di Giovine (2009).

  60. 60.

    Goodenough (2009).

  61. 61.

    Damasio (1995), p. 20.

  62. 62.

    Santosuosso (2009).

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