Description
Book SynopsisNeurocriminology: Forensic and Legal Applications, Public Policy Implications explores the dramatic impact of advances in neuroscience research and practice to our present understanding of criminality and crime control. Contemporary, cutting-edge research in neuroscience is cited and explained. Studies and cases are clearly and concisely outlined with potential uses for practical applications detailed. This will be framed in the context of criminological foundations, theory, and the notion of the nature of crime itself. This comprehensive and engaging book also delves into recent developments in modern neurology, and connections between neuroscience and its criminal, legal, and forensic implications and ramifications.
The book poses various questions about what insight neurology can provide to human cognition, to motivation andin particularcriminal motivation. From biological observations is there a pattern, or are there similarities, in what the brainscan o
Table of Contents
Introduction. 1. Neurocriminology: How Did We Get Here? A Brief History of Criminology 2. Brain Basics: How Neurocriminology Is Possible 3. Overview of Advances in Neuroimaging 4. Neurocriminology: Preliminary Applications 5. Criminals in the Lab 6. Neurocriminology in the Criminal Justice System: Prevention and Investigation 7. Neurocriminology in the Criminal Justice System: Prosecution and Sentencing 8. Neuroscience and Law: International Applications 9. Neurocriminology: Present Context and Possible Future
