Criminal law, neuroscience, and voluntary acts

Weak-Minded Responsibility in Iranian Criminal Law and Egyptian Law

In Iran's criminal law, humans are not only divided into wise or insane they are also persons who, on the one hand, do not fall under Article 149 of the Islamic Penal Code in the definition of insane persons and on the other hand, they are not wise, the rational age of these people is lower than their child's physical age that Affected by mental disorder and mental retardation. Article 91 of th...

Determinism and Criminal Law

Psychiatry and Criminal Law

Legal and Ethical Principles of Criminalization in Iran’s Criminal Law

Background: The criminal code is the rules that restrict the rights and freedoms of a person to ensure peaceful coexistence. What behavior should be prohibited and which one can be removed from the circle of legal acts. How can the word ethics in the world of law refer to ethical and literary means from the past, and is called the tradition of morality, in the sense of moral standards? On the b...

Culture, neuroscience, and law

Gerardo Salvato*, Roy Dings and Lucia Reuter 1 Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy 2 Department of Psychiatry, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 3 Department of Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands 4 Department of Psychiatry, Charité University Hospital of Berlin, Berlin, Germany *Corresp...