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Mind over matter: Mental illness and sentencing outcomes among homicide cases in Singapore.
Int J Law Psychiatry
December 2024
National University of Singapore, Faculty of Science, 6 Science Drive 2, 117546, Singapore.
Singapore implemented legal amendments that led to a transition from a mandatory death penalty to a discretionary death penalty in some cases of murder. This has granted judges greater leeway in the sentencing of homicide offenders, with a decade having now passed since the 2012 amendment. A notable scarcity of research exists to understand the relationship between mental illnesses and criminal culpability, as well as how diminished responsibility impacts sentencing outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBest to possibly not be: A prudential argument for antinatalism.
Bioethics
October 2024
Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
This article starts by examining the present state of death ethics by attending to the euthanasia debate. Given that voluntary active euthanasia has seen strong support in the academic community, insights on the choiceworthiness of continued existence may be derived. Having derived cases of choiceworthy nonexistence (which I refer to as choiceworthy nonexistence [CNE] cases), I extend these intuitions to lives not worth starting, or choiceworthy nonexistence for potential people (which I refer to as foetal-CNE, or fCNE cases).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEffects of Voice Pitch on Social Perceptions Vary With Relational Mobility and Homicide Rate.
Psychol Sci
March 2024
Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University.
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- Fundamental frequency ( ) affects social perceptions, with low male frequencies enhancing perceptions of men's strength and status, especially in societies with high homicide rates and competitive environments.
- On the other hand, high female frequencies made women seem more flirtatious, particularly in societies with lower relational mobility and higher fears of relationship threats.
- The study shows that the impact of on social perceptions varies significantly based on socioecological factors related to competition for status and mates across different cultures.
Why the irremediability requirement is not sufficient to deny psychiatric euthanasia for patients with treatment-resistant depression.
J Med Ethics
October 2024
Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) holds centrality in many debates regarding psychiatric euthanasia. Among the strongest reasons cited by opponents of psychiatric euthanasia is the uncertainty behind the irremediability of psychiatric illnesses. According to this argument, conditions that cannot be considered irremediable imply that there are possible remedies that remain for the condition.
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