Morally excused but socially excluded: Denying agency through the defense of mental impairment

• Melissa de Vel-Palumbo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: melissa.devel-palumbo@flinders.edu.au

  Affiliation College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4765-4207

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• Chelsea Schein,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Rose Ferguson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Science, Psychology and Sport, Federation University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  Affiliation School of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Melissa Xue-Ling Chang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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• Brock Bastian

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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