Editors:
- Provides an overview of the nascent field of Neurolaw
- Considers the reliability, interpretation, and risk of coercion of neuroscientific technologies within criminal justice
- Reviews the legal and ethical implications of using neuroscientific technologies in criminal proceedings
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Law, Neuroscience, and Human Behavior (PASTLNHB)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Legal Perspectives
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Front Matter
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Ethical Perspectives
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This edited book provides an in-depth examination of the implications of neuroscience for the criminal justice system. It draws together experts from across law, neuroscience, medicine, psychology, criminology, and ethics, and offers an important contribution to current debates at the intersection of these fields. It examines how neuroscience might contribute to fair and more effective criminal justice systems, and how neuroscientific insights and information can be integrated into criminal law in a way that respects fundamental rights and moral values.
The book’s first part approaches these questions from a legal perspective, followed by ethical accounts in part two. Its authors address a wide range of topics and approaches: some more theoretical, like those regarding the foundations of punishment; others are more practical, like those concerning the use of brain scans in the courtroom. Together, they illustrate the thoroughly interdisciplinary nature of the debate, in which science, law and ethics are closely intertwined. It will appeal in particular to students and scholars of law, neuroscience, criminology, socio-legal studies and philosophy.
Chapter 8 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Keywords
- Neurolaw
- science, law and ethics
- Security Studies
- Science and Technology Studies
- brain scans in the courtroom
- neuroscientific technologies
- consequentialist model
- neuroenhancement
- human rights and the law
- Neurointerventions
- Legal Right to Mental Integrity
- Idiopathic and acquired pedophilia
- forensic psychiatry
- forensic brain-reading
- Diminished Capacity
- moral culpability
- neuroprediction
- Philosophy of science
- Philosophy of the social sciences
- Emerging Technologies
Editors and Affiliations
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Criminal Law, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Sjors Ligthart, Tijs Kooijmans
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Criminal Law, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Dave van Toor
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Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Thomas Douglas
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Forensic Psychiatry, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Gerben Meynen
About the editors
Sjors Ligthart is PhD candidate in Criminal Law at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
Dave van Toor is Assistant Professor of Criminal Law at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
Tijs Kooijmans is Professor of Criminal Law at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
Thomas Douglas is Professor of Applied Philosophy and Director of Research and Development at the Oxford Uehiro Centre of Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, and Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, University of Oxford, UK.
Gerben Meynen is Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Utrecht University and Professor of Ethics and Psychiatry at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neurolaw
Book Subtitle: Advances in Neuroscience, Justice & Security
Editors: Sjors Ligthart, Dave van Toor, Tijs Kooijmans, Thomas Douglas, Gerben Meynen
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Law, Neuroscience, and Human Behavior
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69277-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69276-6Published: 06 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69279-7Published: 07 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69277-3Published: 05 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-5192
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5206
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 278
Topics: Forensic Psychology, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Socio-legal Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Neurosciences, Research Ethics