My University homepage is http://www.u.arizona.edu/~rgf2/ and SSRN page is http://ssrn.com/author=924700. My scholarly interests have to do with understanding social cognitive foundations of empirical issues in criminal jurisprudence and law. Namely, I study how individual differences in human social-cognitive functioning and capacity may contribute to a more justly defined model of personal responsibility and criminal culpability.
Criminal Law and Procedure
PSYCHOPATHY AND CULPABILITY: HOW RESPONSIBLE IS THE PSYCHOPATH FOR CRIMINAL WRONGDOING?, Law and Social Inquiry (2011)
Recent research into the psychological and neurobiological underpinnings of psychopathy has raised the question of...
In Self-Defense Regarding Self-Defense: A Rejoinder to Professor Corrado, American Criminal Law Review (2010)
This is a rejoinder to Professor Corrado in the upcoming special section of the American...
Adequate (Non)Provocation and Heat of Passion as Excuse not Justification, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (2009)
For a number of reasons, including the complicated psychological nature of reactive homicide, the heat...
An Attack on Self-Defense, American Criminal Law Review (2009)
Debate about the distinction between justification and excuse in criminal law theory has been lively...
On the Boundaries of Culture as an Affirmative Defense (with Eliot M. Held), Arizona Law Review (2009)
A “cultural defense” to criminal culpability cannot achieve true pluralism without collapsing into a totally...
Law and Society
PSYCHOPATHY AND CULPABILITY: HOW RESPONSIBLE IS THE PSYCHOPATH FOR CRIMINAL WRONGDOING?, Law and Social Inquiry (2011)
Recent research into the psychological and neurobiological underpinnings of psychopathy has raised the question of...
In Self-Defense Regarding Self-Defense: A Rejoinder to Professor Corrado, American Criminal Law Review (2010)
This is a rejoinder to Professor Corrado in the upcoming special section of the American...
Adequate (Non)Provocation and Heat of Passion as Excuse not Justification, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (2009)
For a number of reasons, including the complicated psychological nature of reactive homicide, the heat...
An Attack on Self-Defense, American Criminal Law Review (2009)
Debate about the distinction between justification and excuse in criminal law theory has been lively...
On the Boundaries of Culture as an Affirmative Defense (with Eliot M. Held), Arizona Law Review (2009)
A “cultural defense” to criminal culpability cannot achieve true pluralism without collapsing into a totally...
Psychology and Psychiatry
PSYCHOPATHY AND CULPABILITY: HOW RESPONSIBLE IS THE PSYCHOPATH FOR CRIMINAL WRONGDOING?, Law and Social Inquiry (2011)
Recent research into the psychological and neurobiological underpinnings of psychopathy has raised the question of...
Does Response Evaluation and Decision (RED) Mediate the Relation between Hostile Attributional Style and Antisocial Behavior in Adolescence?, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology (2010)
The role of hostile attributional style (HAS) in antisocial development has been well-documented. We analyzed...
New Developments in Developmental Research on Social Information Processing and Antisocial Behavior, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology (2010)
The Special Section on developmental research on social information processing (SIP) and antisocial behavior is...
Adequate (Non)Provocation and Heat of Passion as Excuse not Justification, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (2009)
For a number of reasons, including the complicated psychological nature of reactive homicide, the heat...
An Attack on Self-Defense, American Criminal Law Review (2009)
Debate about the distinction between justification and excuse in criminal law theory has been lively...
Jurisprudence
PSYCHOPATHY AND CULPABILITY: HOW RESPONSIBLE IS THE PSYCHOPATH FOR CRIMINAL WRONGDOING?, Law and Social Inquiry (2011)
Recent research into the psychological and neurobiological underpinnings of psychopathy has raised the question of...
In Self-Defense Regarding Self-Defense: A Rejoinder to Professor Corrado, American Criminal Law Review (2010)
This is a rejoinder to Professor Corrado in the upcoming special section of the American...
Adequate (Non)Provocation and Heat of Passion as Excuse not Justification, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (2009)
For a number of reasons, including the complicated psychological nature of reactive homicide, the heat...
An Attack on Self-Defense, American Criminal Law Review (2009)
Debate about the distinction between justification and excuse in criminal law theory has been lively...
On the Boundaries of Culture as an Affirmative Defense (with Eliot M. Held), Arizona Law Review (2009)
A “cultural defense” to criminal culpability cannot achieve true pluralism without collapsing into a totally...
Developmental Science
PSYCHOPATHY AND CULPABILITY: HOW RESPONSIBLE IS THE PSYCHOPATH FOR CRIMINAL WRONGDOING?, Law and Social Inquiry (2011)
Recent research into the psychological and neurobiological underpinnings of psychopathy has raised the question of...
Does Response Evaluation and Decision (RED) Mediate the Relation between Hostile Attributional Style and Antisocial Behavior in Adolescence?, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology (2010)
The role of hostile attributional style (HAS) in antisocial development has been well-documented. We analyzed...
New Developments in Developmental Research on Social Information Processing and Antisocial Behavior, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology (2010)
The Special Section on developmental research on social information processing (SIP) and antisocial behavior is...
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Social information processing and aggressive behavior: A transactional perspective (with Kenneth A. Dodge), The transactional model of development: How children and contexts shape each other (2009)
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The wrongfulness of wrongly interpreting wrongfulness: Provocation interpretational bias and heat of passion homicide, New Criminal Law Review (2009)
In U.S. criminal law, a defendant charged with murder can invoke the heat of passion...
On-line social decision making and antisocial behavior: Some essential but neglected issues, Clinical Psychology Review (2008)
The last quarter century has witnessed considerable progress in the scientific study of social information...
Social Information Processing and Cardiac Predictors of Adolescent Antisocial Behavior, Journal of Abnormal Psychology (2008)
The relations among social information processing (SIP), cardiac activity, and antisocial behavior were investigated in...
Testing an Individual Systems Model of Response Evaluation and Decision (RED) and Antisocial Behavior Across Adolescence, Child Development (2008)
This study examined the bidirectional development of aggressive response evaluation and decision (RED) and antisocial...