Edited by Ilina Singh, Walter P. Sinnott-Armstrong and Julian Savulecu
Many decisions in the legal system and elsewhere depend on predictions of bad behaviors, including crimes and mental illnesses. Some scientists have suggested recently that these predictions can become more accurate and useful if they are based in part on biological information, such as brain
structure and function, genes, and hormones. The prospect of such bioprediction, however, raises serious concerns about errors and injustice.
Can biological information significantly increase the accuracy of predictions of bad behavior? Will innocent or harmless people be mistakenly
treated as if they were guilty or dangerous? Is it fair to keep people in prisons or mental institutions longer because of their biology? Will these new instruments of bioprediction be abused in practice within current institutions? Is bioprediction worth the cost? Do we want our government to use
biology in this way? All of these scientific, legal, and ethical questions are discussed in this volume. The contributors are prominent neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, ethicists, and legal scholars. This volume will interest everyone with hopes that bioprediction will
solve problems or fears that bioprediction will be applied unjustly.
Philip Campbell: Foreword
Contributors
1. Ilina Singh and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong: Introduction: Deviance, classification and bio-prediction
2. Matthew Baum and Julian Savulescu: Behavioural Biomarkers: What Are They Good For? Towards the Ethical Use of Biomarker
3. Charlotte
Walsh: Bioprediction in Youth Justice
4. John Monahan: The Inclusion of Biological Risk Factors in Violence Risk Assessments
5. Christopher Slobogin: Bioprediction in Criminal Cases
6. Colin Campbell and Nigel Eastman: The Limits of Legal Use of Neuroscience
7. Paul Root Wolpe:
Rethinking the Implications of Discovering Biomarkers for Biologically-Based Criminality
8. Joshua W. Buckholtz and Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg: MAOA and the Bioprediction of Antisocial Behavior: Science Fact and Science Fiction
9. Essi Viding and Ewan McCrory: Genetic biomarker research of
callous-unemotional traits in children: Implications for the law and policy making
10. John Dylan-Haynes: The neural code for intentions in the human brain
11. Michael Rutter: Biomarkers: Potential and challenges
12. Vince D. Calhoun and Mohammad R. Arbabshirania: Neuroimaging-based
Automatic Classification of Schizophrenia
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Ilina Singh is with the Methodology Institute at the London School of Economics. Walter P. Sinnott-Armstrong is Chancey Stillman Professor of Ethics and Professor of Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. Julian Savulecu is with the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford
University.
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A Primer on Criminal Law and Neuroscience - Stephen J. Morse and Adina L. Roskies
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