Guilt, responsibility and the tyranny of the past: Kleinian moral psychology, critical realism and criminal justice.

An emerging school of criminal justice scholarship draws on Kleinian psychoanalysis to develop a moral psychology for thinking critically about guilt, responsibility and punishment. Many contributions are influenced by critical realism, whose ontological and epistemic insights allow psychoanalytic k...

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Published in:	Journal of Critical Realism Vol. 24; no. 4; pp. 403 - 426
Main Author:	Reeves, Craig
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Aug2025
Subjects:	Responsibility Guilt (Psychology) Critical realism Change (Psychology) Criminal justice system Moral reasoning Crises Bhaskar, Roy, 1944-2014 Psychoanalysis
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