BUS 17 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Involuntary Treatment, Intellectual Disability, Nucleus Accumbens
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Vincent: restoring responsibility: promoting justice, therapy and reform. Capacitarianism: the idea that responsibility tracks/co-varies with mental capacity. This concept underlies much of our thinking about responsibility. Whether someone is a fully responsible person. About the degree of responsibility for something they did. Whether they can be held responsibly for what they have done. Responsibility requires the ability to perceive the world without delusion, to think clearly and rationally, to guide our actions by the light of our judgments and to resist acting on mere impulse. Shot himself in the head after shooting his girlfriend. Was initially found incompetent to stand trial but recovered fully from the incident. After recovery and subsequent re-assessment, he was found competent to stand trial and pled guilty to manslaughter. It is impermissible to punish defendants who are insane (even if not insane at the time of crime, because this would not serve penological goals) . It is impermissible to punish mentally retarded defendants.
