Dr Louise Kennefick Guest Seminar for the Crime, Justice and Society Group at Edinburgh University

Thursday, December 19, 2019 - 10:30

Dr Louise Kennefick, Visiting Scholar at Edinburgh University, presented a paper "Towards a Morally Contextualised Understanding of Respect for Persons in the Criminal Law" to the Crime, Justice and Society Group. The paper argued for the application of a capabilities approach to responsibility practices within the criminal law, with a view to transposing a socially realised perception of the concept of respect for persons at the point of responsibility attribution:
https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/events/towards-morally-contextualised-understanding-respect-persons-criminal-law-louise

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