Law and neuroscience / current legal issues 2010
Freeman, Michael D. A.
Freeman, Michael D. A.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2011.
The latest volume in the 'Current Legal Issues' series offers an insight into the evolving state of law and neuroscience scholarship today. Focusing on the inter-connections between the two disciplines, it addresses the key issues informing current debates.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
The latest volume in the 'Current Legal Issues' series offers an insight into the evolving state of law and neuroscience scholarship today. Focusing on the inter-connections between the two disciplines, it addresses the key issues informing current debates.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : law and the brain / Michael Freeman -- What neuroscience can (and cannot) tell us about criminal responsibility / Walter Glannon -- Mens rea, logic, and the brain / Gert-Jan Lockhorst -- Indeterminism and control : an approach to the problem of luck / John Martin Fischer -- Neuroscience and criminal responsibility : proving "can't help himself" as a narrow bar to criminal liability / Henry T. Greely --  Madness, badness, and neuroimaging-based responsibility assessments / Nicole A. Vincent -- Brain images as evidence in the criminal law / Adina L. Roskies and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong -- The neural correlates of third-party punishment / Joshua W. Buckholtz ... [et al.]. -- Law, neuroscience, and criminal culpability / Lisa Claydon --  How (some) criminals are made / Theodore Y. Blumoff -- Neuroscience and penal law : ineffectiveness of the penal systems and flawed perception of the under-evaluation of behaviour constituting crime. The particular case of crimes regarding intangible goods / David Terracina -- Neuroscience and emotional harm in tort law : rethinking the American approach to free-standing emotional distress claims / Betsy J. Grey -- Neuroscience and ideology : why science can never supply a complete answer for adolescent maturity / June Carbone -- Adolescent brain science and juvenile justice / Terry A. Maroney -- The neuroscience of cruelty as brain damage : legal framings of capacity and ethical issues in the neurorehabilitation of motor neurone disease and and behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia / Robin Mackenzie and Mohamed Sakel.
The carmentis machine : legal and ethical issues in the use of neuroimaging to guide treatment withdrawl in newborn infants / Dominic Wilkinson and Charles Foster -- The right to silence protects mental control / Dov Fox -- Minds apart : severe brain injury, citizenship, and civil rights / Joseph J. Fins -- Reciprocity and neuroscience in public health law / A.M. Viens -- Pathways to persuasion : how neuroscience can inform the study and practice of law / Cheryl Boudreau, Seana Coulson, and Mathew D. McCubbins -- The juridical role of emotions in the decisional process of popular juries / Laura Caprano -- Possible legal implications of neural mechanisms underlying ethical behaviour / Donald Pfaff and Sandra Sherman -- What Hobbes left out : the neuroscience of compassion and its implications for a new common-wealth / James D. Duffy -- Neuroscience and the free exercise of religion / Steven Goldberg -- Steps toward a constructivist and coherentist theory of judicial reasoning in civil law tradition / Enrique Cáceres -- Evolutionary jurisprudence : the end of the naturalistic fallacy and the beginning of natural reform? / Morris B. Hoffman -- The history of scientific and clinical images in mid-to-late nineteenth-century American legal culture : implications for contemporary law and neuroscience / Daniel S. Goldberg -- Lost in translation? : an essay on law and neuroscience / Stephen J. Morse.
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