Stephen J. Morse and Adina L. Roskies
As a result, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation decided to support a three-year multidisciplinary initiative, The Law and Neuroscience Project, that created teams (termed "research networks") of lawyers, neuroscientists and philosophers to explore the appropriate conceptual
relation of neuroscience and law and to engage in empirical investigations that would demonstrate the specific relevance of neuroscience to law.
Although there was a substantial range of opinion among Project participants about the potential relevance of neuroscience to criminal law, it
became apparent that a basic primer or handbook that set forth a statement of the relation as the authors understand it at present would be enormously helpful to practicing lawyers, judges, and legal policy makers as they increasingly were confronted with claims based on neuroscience information.
The goal is to provide accurate information and to clarify the basic questions that will inevitable arise so that the criminal law can avoid confusion and mistakes based on inadequate understanding.
Contributors
Owen D. Jones: Foreword
Stephen J. Morse & Adina L. Roskies: Preface
Stephen J. Morse: Introduction
1. Annabelle M. Belcher & Adina L. Roskies: Neuroscience Basics
2. Adina L. Roskies: Brain Imaging Techniques
3. Adina L. Roskies: Other Neuroscientific
Techniques
4. David L. Faigman: Admissibility of Neuroscientific Expert Testimony
5. Henry T. (Hank) Greely: Neuroscience, Mind-Reading and the Law
6. Stephen J. Morse & William T. Newsome: Criminal Responsibility, Criminal Competence and Criminal Law Prediction
7. Barry C. Feld,
B.J. Casey & Yasmin L. Hurd: Adolescent Culpability and Competence: Implications of Neuroscience for Criminal Justice Adjudication
8. Douglas Husak & Emily Murphy: The Relevance of the Neuroscience of Addiction to the Criminal Law
9. Stephen J. Morse & Adina L. Roskies: The Future of Law and
Neuroscience
Glossary
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Stephen J. Morse, J.D., Ph.D., is the Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry, & Associate Director of the Center for Neuroscience and Society, University of Pennsylvania. Adina L. Roskies, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Dartmouth
University, and has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience.
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