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Perpetrators as Seen by the Italian Positivist School in Light of Contemporary Legal Theory
Marta Dragičević Prtenjača
; Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author deals with the issue of genetic predisposition for the commission of offenses involving violence, and draws a parallel between the typology of perpetrators according to the postulates of the Italian positivist school and the classification of offenders in modern criminal law. Results of some recent studies on the impact of genetics and hormones as endogenous factors of antisocial and criminal behavior are also discussed.
Keywords
positivist school; Ferri’s pentagon; mental incompetence; diminished mental competence; genetic predisposition
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132647
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Publication date:
16.12.2014.
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