Neurolaw, 1st ed. 2021 Advances in Neuroscience, Justice & Security Palgrave Studies in Law, Neuroscience, and Human Behavior Series
Coordonnateurs : Ligthart Sjors, van Toor Dave, Kooijmans Tijs, Douglas Thomas, Meynen Gerben
This edited book provides an in-depth examination of the implications of neuroscience for the criminal justice system. It draws together experts from across law, neuroscience, medicine, psychology, criminology, and ethics, and offers an important contribution to current debates at the intersection of these fields. It examines how neuroscience might contribute to fair and more effective criminal justice systems, and how neuroscientific insights and information can be integrated into criminal law in a way that respects fundamental rights and moral values.
The book?s first part approaches these questions from a legal perspective, followed by ethical accounts in part two. Its authors address a wide range of topics and approaches: some more theoretical, like those regarding the foundations of punishment; others are more practical, like those concerning the use of brain scans in the courtroom. Together, they illustrate the thoroughly interdisciplinary nature of the debate, in which science, law and ethics are closely intertwined. It will appeal in particular to students and scholars of law, neuroscience, criminology, socio-legal studies and philosophy.
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.
Sjors Ligthart is PhD candidate in Criminal Law at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
Dave van Toor is Assistant Professor of Criminal Law at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
Tijs Kooijmans is Professor of Criminal Law at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
Thomas Douglas is Professor of Applied Philosophy and Director of Research and Development at the Oxford Uehiro Centre of Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, and Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, University of Oxford, UK.
Gerben Meynen is Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Utrecht University and Professor of Ethics and Psychiatry at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Provides an overview of the nascent field of Neurolaw
Considers the reliability, interpretation, and risk of coercion of neuroscientific technologies within criminal justice
Reviews the legal and ethical implications of using neuroscientific technologies in criminal proceedings
Date de parution : 05-2022
Ouvrage de 278 p.
14.8x21 cm
Disponible chez l'éditeur (délai d'approvisionnement : 15 jours).
Prix indicatif 116,04 €
Ajouter au panierDate de parution : 05-2021
Ouvrage de 278 p.
14.8x21 cm
Disponible chez l'éditeur (délai d'approvisionnement : 15 jours).
Prix indicatif 116,04 €
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Neurolaw; science; law and ethics; Security Studies; Science and Technology Studies; brain scans in the courtroom; neuroscientific technologies; consequentialist model; neuroenhancement; human rights and the law; Neurointerventions; Legal Right to Mental Integrity; Idiopathic and acquired pedophilia; forensic psychiatry; forensic brain-reading; Diminished Capacity; moral culpability; neuroprediction; Philosophy of science; Philosophy of the social sciences; Emerging Technologies