Book Review: The Criminal Mind

Abstract

People’s mental processes, particularly how they see and understand other people, change as they grow, and the criminal law should take this into account. Vastly oversimplified, this is the fundamental premise of The Mind of the Criminal: The Role of Developmental Social Cognition in Criminal Defense Law, Reid Griffith Fontaine’s elegant tour of seven areas of the American criminal justice system’s recognition — or failure to recognize — the new “social-cognitive jurisprudence.”

Keywords: Mental, Social Cognition, Deviance, Developmental, Antisocial