Main description:

New discoveries from neuroscience and behavioral genetics are besieging criminal law. Novel scientific perspectives on criminal behavior could transform the criminal justice system and yet are being introduced in an ad hoc and often ill-conceived manner. Bringing together experts across multiple disciplines, including geneticists, neuroscientists, philosophers, policymakers, and legal scholars, The Impact of Behavioral Sciences on
Criminal Law is a comprehensive collection of essays that address the emerging science from behavioral genetics and neuroscience and its developing impact on the criminal justice system. The essays survey how the science is and will likely be used in criminal law and the policy and the ethical issues that arise from its use for
criminal law and for society.

Contents:

INTRODUCTION ; PART I: THE SCIENCE OF CRIMINAL CONDUCT ; BEHAVIORAL GENETICS: THE SCIENCE OF ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR ; MISINFORMATION, MISREPRESENTATION, AND MISUSE OF HUMANBEHAVIORAL GENETICS RESEARCH ; THE DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR ; PART II: CONSIDERING THE BROADER CONTEXT ; BEHAVIORAL GENETICS AND CRIME, IN CONTEXT ; CONSIDERING CONVERGENCE: A POLICY DIALOGUE ABOUT ; BEHAVIORAL GENETICS, NEUROSCIENCE, AND LAW ; <"WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN?: BEHAVIORAL GENOMICS, NEUROSCIENCE, CRIMINAL LAW, AND THE SEARCH FOR HIDDEN KNOWLEDGE>" ; PART III: REVISITING CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY ; GENETICS, NEUROSCIENCE AND CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY ; ADDICTION, SCIENCE AND CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY ; PART IV: IMPLICATIONS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND SOCIETY ; GENOMICS, BEHAVIOR, AND TESTIMONY AT CRIMINAL TRIALS ; BEHAVIORAL GENETICS EVIDENCE IN CRIMINAL CASES: 1994-2007 ; BEHAVIORAL GENETICS RESEARCH AND CRIMINAL DNA DATABASES: LAWS AND POLICIES ; GENETIC PREDICTIONS OF FUTURE DANGEROUSNESS: IS THERE A BLUEPRINT FOR VIOLENCE? ; THE SCARLET GENE: BEHAVIORAL GENETICS, CRIMINAL LAW, AND ; RACIAL AND ETHNIC STIGMA ; APPENDIX ; APPENDIX TO: BEHAVIORAL GENETICS EVIDENCE IN CRIMINAL CASES: 1994-2007 ; Index