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The Impact of Behavioral Sciences on Criminal Law

The Impact of Behavioral Sciences on Criminal Law

Author: Nita Farahany
Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
ISBN: 9780195340525
Published In: April 2009
Format: Hardback , 540 pages
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The Impact of Behavioral Sciences on Criminal Law brings a trans-disciplinary approach to subject through its inclusion of essays by the leading behavioral geneticists, neuroscientists, philosophers, policymakers, and legal scholars
The collected essays address a wide-range of current issues involved in the changing landscape of behavioral science and the law
Essential reading for anyone interested in the ongoing genomic and neuroscience revolution and it's implications on criminal law

The Impact of Behavioral Genetics on Criminal Law is essential reading for anyone interested in the ongoing genomics and neuroscience revolution and its implications for criminal law. Building in part on a recent multi-disciplinary conference, this collection of essays offers a comprehensive discussion of the ramifications of behavioral sciences in criminal cases and brings together the leading behavioral geneticists, neuroscientists, philosophers, policymakers, and legal scholars to address the multi-faceted concerns at issue.

Together, the essays in this volume discuss the scientific progress and limitations in behavioral science research relating to criminal conduct, and the ethical concerns and practical implications of introducing behavioral science evidence into criminal cases. Included is a detailed discussion of criminal cases in which biological and neurological predisposition testimony has been introduced, the implications for criminal responsibility and punishment, the consequences for DNA databank research, new directions in predictions of future dangerousness, and the concerns for ethnic and racial minorities arising from this research.

Readership: Scholars, practitioners and advanced readers interested in the impact that behavioral science has on criminal law.

Introduction Nita A. Farahany
Part I: The Science of Criminal Conduct
Behavioral Genetics: The Science of Antisocial Behavior Laura A. Baker, Serena Bezdjian, and Adrian Raine
Neuroscience: Emerging Science on the Criminal Mind Abigail Bird, Michael Gazzaniga, Dean Mobbs, Martha Farah
Misinformation, Misrepresentation, and Misuse of Human Behavioral Genetics Research Jonathan Kaplan
Part II: Considering the Broader Context
Behavioral Genetics and Crime, in Context Owen D. Jones
Considering Convergence: A Policy Dialogue about Behavioral Genetics, Neuroscience, and Law Brent Garland and Mark S. Frankel
Part III: Revisiting Criminal Responsibility
To Know the Criminal from the Crime Nita A. Farahany and James E. Coleman, Jr.
Addiction, Genetics, Neuroscience, and Criminal Responsibility Stephen J. Morse
Part IV: Implications for Criminal Justice and Society
Revisiting the Legal Link between Genetics and Crime Deborah W. Denno
MAOA and SLC6A4: Recent Testimony for the Defense and Prosecution William Bernet
Behavioral Genetics Research and Criminal DNA Databases D.H. Kaye
Schiriro v. Landrigan: Considering Biological vs. Environmental Factors in Sentencing Nita A. Farahany and Kenneth Kendler
Future Dangerousness: Is there a Blueprint for Violence? Erica Beecher-Monas and Edgar Garcia-Rill
Behavioral Genetics, Homosexuality and Criminal Statues Lisa Keene
The Scarlet Gene: Behavioral Genetics, Criminal Law, and Racial and Ethnic Stigma

Nita Farahany is assistant professor of law at Vanderbilt University Law School. Her teaching and research areas of expertise are law and biology (behavioral genetics, genetics, neuroscience, psychiatry), and law and philosophy (wrongfulness, responsibility and punishment theory).