Law and neuroscience
Subtitle: current legal issues 2010
By: edited by Michael Freeman
Series: Current legal issues -- 13
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9780199599844
Subjects: Neurosciences; Law; Psychological aspects
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : law and the brain / Michael Freeman; title: What neuroscience can (and cannot) tell us about criminal responsibility / Walter Glannon; title: Mens rea, logic, and the brain / Gert-Jan Lockhorst; title: Indeterminism and control : an approach to the problem of luck / John Martin Fischer; title: Neuroscience and criminal responsibility : proving "can't help himself" as a narrow bar to criminal liability / Henry T. Greely; title: Madness, badness, and neuroimaging-based responsibility assessments / Nicole A. Vincent; title: Brain images as evidence in the criminal law / Adina L. Roskies and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong; title: The neural correlates of third-party punishment / Joshua W. Buckholtz ... [et al.].; title: Law, neuroscience, and criminal culpability / Lisa Claydon; title: How (some) criminals are made / Theodore Y. Blumoff; title: 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; title: Neuroscience and emotional harm in tort law : rethinking the American approach to free-standing emotional distress claims / Betsy J. Grey; title: Neuroscience and ideology : why science can never supply a complete answer for adolescent maturity / June Carbone; title: Adolescent brain science and juvenile justice / Terry A. Maroney; title: 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.; title: The carmentis machine : legal and ethical issues in the use of neuroimaging to guide treatment withdrawl in newborn infants / Dominic Wilkinson and Charles Foster; title: The right to silence protects mental control / Dov Fox; title: Minds apart : severe brain injury, citizenship, and civil rights / Joseph J. Fins; title: Reciprocity and neuroscience in public health law / A.M. Viens; title: Pathways to persuasion : how neuroscience can inform the study and practice of law / Cheryl Boudreau, Seana Coulson, and Mathew D. McCubbins; title: The juridical role of emotions in the decisional process of popular juries / Laura Caprano; title: Possible legal implications of neural mechanisms underlying ethical behaviour / Donald Pfaff and Sandra Sherman; title: What Hobbes left out : the neuroscience of compassion and its implications for a new common-wealth / James D. Duffy; title: Neuroscience and the free exercise of religion / Steven Goldberg; title: Steps toward a constructivist and coherentist theory of judicial reasoning in civil law tradition / Enrique Cáceres; title: Evolutionary jurisprudence : the end of the naturalistic fallacy and the beginning of natural reform? / Morris B. Hoffman; title: 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; title: Lost in translation? : an essay on law and neuroscience / Stephen J. Morse.