Main description:

This handbook, the result of a three-year multidisciplinary initiative supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur foundation, brings lawyers, neuroscientists, and philosophers together to explore the appropriate relationary between neuroscience and law and to engage in empiricalted investigation to demonstate the specific relevance of one to the other.

Contents:

CONTENTS ; Contributors ; Foreword ; Owen D. Jones ; Preface ; Stephen J. Morse & Adina L. Roskies ; Introduction ; Stephen J. Morse ; 1. Neuroscience Basics ; Annabelle M. Belcher & Adina L. Roskies ; 2. Brain Imaging Techniques ; Adina L. Roskies ; 3. Other Neuroscientific Techniques ; Adina L. Roskies ; 4. Admissibility of Neuroscientific Expert Testimony ; David L. Faigman ; 5. Mind-Reading, Neuroscience, and the Law ; Henry T. (Hank) Greely ; 6. Criminal Responsibility, Criminal Competence, and Prediction of Criminal Behavior ; 7. Adolescent Culpability and Competence: Implications of Neuroscience for Criminal Justice Adjudication ; 7. Adolescent Competence and Culpability: Implications of Neuroscience for Juvenile Justice Administration ; 8. The Relevance of the Neuroscience of Addiction to the Criminal Law ; Douglas Husak & Emily Murphy ; 9. The Future of Law and Neuroscience ; 9. Neuroscience and the Law: Looking Forward ; Glossary ; Index