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double-edged sword of biological mitigation: a standalone construct

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Legal psychology

the finding that biological evidence about a defendant's psychopathy lowers judges' sentences by reducing blame even as it raises perceived dangerousness.

In legal psychology, double-edged sword of biological mitigation refers to the finding that biological evidence about a defendant's psychopathy lowers judges' sentences by reducing blame even as it raises perceived dangerousness. This meaning comes from Aspinwall (2012) in Science.[1]

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Aspinwall, L. G., Brown, T. R., & Tabery, J. (2012). The Double-Edged Sword: Does Biomechanism Increase or Decrease Judges' Sentencing of Psychopaths? Science, 337(6096), 846-849. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1219569

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