Publications of Federica Coppola

Coppola, F. (2023). Gender identity in the era of mass incarceration: The cruel and unusual segregation of trans people in the United States. International Journal of Constitutional Law, moad046. doi:10.1093/icon/moad046

Coppola, F. (in press). Bringing Social (In)Justice to the Fore of Criminal Law Doctrine: A Proposal for a Situational Partial Excuse (‘SPE’). In submission to law journals.

Coppola, F., & Insolera, P. (2022). Ergastolo senza Possibilità di Parole Irrogato a Minorenni sotto l’VIII Emendamento della Costituzione degli Stati Uniti d’America. Un’Analisi Critica alla Luce della Pronuncia della Corte Suprema Jones v. Misissippi _593 U.S. (2021). L’indice penale, 2022(1), 204–251.

Coppola, F. (2021). We are More Than our Executive Functions: on the Emotional and Situational Aspects of Criminal Responsibility and Punishment. Criminal Law, Philosophy, 16(2), 253–266. doi:10.1007/s11572-021-09594-5

Coppola, F., & Insolera, P. (2021). Sulla (mancanza di) protezione costituzionale della c.d. insanity defense negli Stati Uniti d’America. Note critiche a margine della sentenza della Corte Suprema Kahler v. Kansas, 589 U.S. __ (2020). Diritto Penale XXI Secolo, 2021(1), 87–119.

Berryessa, C. M., Coppola, F., & Salvato, G. (2020). The Potential Effect of Neurobiological Evidence on the Adjudication of Criminal Responsibility of Psychopathic Defendants in Involuntary Manslaughter Cases. Psychology, Crime & Law, 27(2), 140–158. doi:10.1080/1068316X.2020.1780590

Coppola, F. (2020). When the Brain Can Make a Difference: Individualized versus Framework Uses of Neuroscience in Courtroom. Diritto Penale e Uomo – Criminal Law and Human Condition, 2020(1).

Coppola, F. (2021). The emotional brain and the guilty mind: novel paradigms of culpability and punishment. Oxford: Hart. doi:10.5040/9781509934324

Coppola, F. (2023). Review of: Rollins, O., “Conviction: The Making and Unmaking of the Violent Brain.” Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books. Rutgers University.

Coppola, F. (2025). Context matters: An argument for a socio-contextual model of criminal responsibility. In T. Crofts, L. Kennefick, & A. Loughnan (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook on Criminal Responsibility (pp. 26–36). London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003297260-4

Coppola, F. (2024). Social Rehabilitation under the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: A Jurisprudential Analysis for Change. In F. Coppola & A. Martufi (Eds.), Social Rehabilitation and Criminal Justice. Routledge.

Coppola, F., & Martufi, A. (2024). What is Social Rehabilitation? In F. Coppola & A. Martufi (Eds.), Social Rehabilitation and Criminal Justice. Routledge.

Coppola, F. (in press). Social Vulnerability on Trial: The Role of the Neuroscience of Trauma at Sentencing. In Global Perspectives of Neuroscience and Vulnerable Defendants in the Criminal Justice System. Routledge.

Coppola, F. (2020). Humanizing Prison through Social Neuroscience: From the Abolition of Solitary Confinement to the Pursuit of Social Rehabilitation. In F. Focquaert, E. Shaw, & B. N. Waller (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Science of Punishment (pp. 187–200). Milton: Routledge.

Coppola, F. (2019). Bringing (the Right) Feelings Back: Culpability, Punishment and Violence in the Era of Social and Affective Neuroscience. In A. Waltermann, D. Roef, J. Hage, & M. Jelicic (Eds.), Law, Science, Rationality (pp. 73–111) Maastricht Law Series. Eleven International Publishing.

Coppola, F., & Martufi, A. (Eds.). (2024). Social Rehabilitation and Criminal Justice. Abingdon: Routledge.