Mental Disorder, Culpability, and Criminal Law
Joint international research conference organized by the projects DIMENSIONS and Roots of Responsibility.
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About
This workshop aims to facilitate an inter-jurisdictional, multi-disciplinary conversation focused around two driving questions:
- How is the relationship between culpability and mental disorder best understood?
- Where a defendant’s mental disorder potentially plays an exculpatory role, how can this be fairly and accurately accounted for within the culpability determinations that the criminal law makes?
Across two days, the conference will feature presentations by specialists in philosophy, law, psychology, and psychiatry, followed by comments and discussion.
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Workshop coordinators
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the DIMENSIONS project, Tova Bennet (Tova.Bennet@uib.no)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Roots of Responsibility project, Claire Hogg (Claire.Hogg@kcl.ac.uk)
Program
Please note that the program is preliminary and may be subject to change.
Day 1 (Thursday 22nd Sept)
9:30 – Welcome and Introduction
- Opening of the conference - Knut Rypdal
- Introductions by John Hyman and Linda Gröning
Break
10:15 – Session 1: Insanity, Mental disorder and Crime
- Linda Gröning
- Stephen J. Morse
Break
- Discussion
11:45 – Lunch
12:45 – Session 2: Mental Disorder and Moral Agency
- Nomy Arpaly
- Yuuki Otha (responding)
Break
- Discussion
Break
14:30 – Session 3: Applying the Insanity Defence
- Ronnie Mackay
- Slavka Dimitrova
Break
- Discussion
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19:30 – Conference Dinner
Day 2 (Friday 23rd Sept)
9:45 – Session 4: Philosophy, Psychiatry and the Criminal Law
- Susanna Radovic
- Gerben Meynen
Break
- Discussion
Break
11:30 – Session 5: Integrated Models of Insanity
- Tova Bennet
- Claire Hogg
Break
- Christopher Slobogin (responding)
- Discussion
13:00 – Lunch
14:00 – Session 6: Roundtable
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15:30 – Conference End
Funding
DIMENSIONS is funded by The Research Council of Norway under the SAMKUL program (project code: 314840).
Roots of Responsibility is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (project ID: 789270).
Thanks to SIFER Vest (Centre for Research and Education in Forensic Psychiatry, Haukeland University Hospital) for providing additional funding for this conference.
