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Format:
Paperback
540 pp.
155 mm x 229 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199773305

Publication date:
October 2011

Imprint: OUP US

The Impact of Behavioral Sciences on Criminal Law

Edited by Nita Farahany

New discoveries from neuroscience and behavioral genetics are besieging criminal law. Novel scientific perspectives on criminal behavior could transform the criminal justice system and yet are being introduced in an ad hoc and often ill-conceived manner. Bringing together experts across multiple disciplines, including geneticists, neuroscientists, philosophers, policymakers, and legal scholars, The Impact of Behavioral Sciences on Criminal Law is a comprehensive collection of essays that address the emerging science from behavioral genetics and neuroscience and its developing impact on the criminal justice system. The essays survey how the science is and will likely be used in criminal law and the policy and the ethical issues that arise from its use for criminal law and for society.

Readership : This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the ongoing genomics and neuroscience revolution and its implications for criminal law. Scholars, students.

Reviews

"Recent developments in behavioral genetics have tremendous potential for understanding crime; yet they also create great dangers of abuse in criminal trials as well as policies. These profound and important issues are discussed in depth from various disciplinary perspectives by the prominent and learned contributors to this well-organized and accessible volume. It should be read by anyone interested in where our legal system is headed."

--Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Dartmouth College, Co-director, MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Project

INTRODUCTION
PART I: THE SCIENCE OF CRIMINAL CONDUCT
BEHAVIORAL GENETICS: THE SCIENCE OF ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR
MISINFORMATION, MISREPRESENTATION, AND MISUSE OF HUMANBEHAVIORAL GENETICS RESEARCH
THE DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR
PART II: CONSIDERING THE BROADER CONTEXT
BEHAVIORAL GENETICS AND CRIME, IN CONTEXT
CONSIDERING CONVERGENCE: A POLICY DIALOGUE ABOUT
BEHAVIORAL GENETICS, NEUROSCIENCE, AND LAW
"WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN?: BEHAVIORAL GENOMICS, NEUROSCIENCE, CRIMINAL LAW, AND THE SEARCH FOR HIDDEN KNOWLEDGE"
PART III: REVISITING CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY
GENETICS, NEUROSCIENCE AND CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY
ADDICTION, SCIENCE AND CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY
PART IV: IMPLICATIONS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND SOCIETY
GENOMICS, BEHAVIOR, AND TESTIMONY AT CRIMINAL TRIALS
BEHAVIORAL GENETICS EVIDENCE IN CRIMINAL CASES: 1994-2007
BEHAVIORAL GENETICS RESEARCH AND CRIMINAL DNA DATABASES: LAWS AND POLICIES
GENETIC PREDICTIONS OF FUTURE DANGEROUSNESS: IS THERE A BLUEPRINT FOR VIOLENCE?
THE SCARLET GENE: BEHAVIORAL GENETICS, CRIMINAL LAW, AND RACIAL AND ETHNIC STIGMA
APPENDIX
APPENDIX TO: BEHAVIORAL GENETICS EVIDENCE IN CRIMINAL CASES: 1994-2007
Index

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Nita Farahany is associate professor of law and an associate professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University Law School. Her teaching and research areas of expertise are law and biology (behavioral genetics, genetics, neuroscience, psychiatry), and law and philosophy (wrongfulness, responsibility and punishment theory).

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Special Features

Provides a unique, trans-disciplinary approach to understanding behavioral sciences and criminal law with a collection of essays written by behavioral geneticists, neuroscientists, philosophers, policymakers, and legal scholars.
Tackles a multifaceted array of genetic and neurological issues and how they are addressed within criminal law.
Edited by an experienced scholar of both criminal law and behavioral sciences.