Law, mind and brain
By: edited by Michael Freeman and Oliver R. Goodenough.
Contributors: Freeman, Michael D. A.; Goodenough, Oliver R.
Series: Medical law and ethics
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780754670131
Subjects: Law -- Psychological aspects; Forensic psychology
Description: This edited collection brings together contributions from experts working in criminal behaviour and justice. International and interdisciplinary in approach the authors are drawn from law, criminal justice and medicine.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Law, responsibility and the brain; title: Brain imaging and courtroom evidence on the admissibility and persuasiveness; title: Mind the gap : problems of mind, body and brain in the criminal law; title: Self-exclusion agreements : should we be free not to be free to ruin ourselves?; title: The problems with blaming; title: Why distinguish mental and physical illness in law of involuntary treatment?; title: A stable paradigm : revisiting capacity, vulnerability and the rights claims of adolescents after Roper v. Simmons; title: Thinking like a child : legal implications of recent developments in brain research for juvenile offenders; title: Legal implications of memory dampening; title: Reframing the good death: enhancing choice in dying, neuroscience, end of life research and the potential of psychedelics in palliative care; title: Equality in exchange revisited from an evolutionary (genetic and cultural) point of view; title: Just (and efficient?) compensation for governmental expropriations; title: Examining the biological bases of family law : lessons to be learned from the evolutionary analysis of law; title: Why do good people steal intellectual property?; title: Cues in the courtroom : when do they improve jurors decisions?; title: Reflections on reading : words and pictures and law.