Neurolaw: Advances in Neuroscience, Justice & Security

Book Overview

1. Possibilities and limitations of neuroscience in the legal process.- 2. Νeuroscience and dangerousness evaluations: The effect of neuroscience evidence on Judges. Findings from a focus group study.- 3. The need for a partial defence of diminished capacity, and the potential role of the cognitive sciences in helping frame that defence.- 4. Coercion and control and excusing murder?.- 5. Reading the sleeping mind: Empirical and legal considerations.- 6. 'Brain-reading' in criminal justice and forensic psychiatry: Towards an integrative legal-ethical approach.- 7. A biopsychosocial approach to idiopathic versus acquired pedophilia: what do we know and how do we proceed legally and ethically?.- 8. Three rationales for a legal right to mental integrity.- 9. Neurointerventions and crime prevention: On ideal and non-ideal considerations.- 10. Neuroscience and the moral enhancement of offenders: The exceptionally good 'brain' as a thought experiment.- 11. Retributivism, consequentialism, and the role of science.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030692795
• ISBN13: 9783030692797
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"