A Primer on Criminal Law and Neuroscience Ebook

A Primer on Criminal Law and Neuroscience Ebook

A Primer on Criminal Law and Neuroscience Ebook

Ebook details:

Title: A Primer on Criminal Law and Neuroscience: A contribution of the Law and Neuroscience Project, supported by the MacArthur Foundation

Author: Stephen J. Morse,‎ Adina L. Roskies

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Edition: ۱ edition

Langage: English

Format: eBook  HTML TO PDF

Size: ۱ Mb

Year: ۲۰۱۳

ISBN: 0199859175

As a result, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation decided to support a three-year multidisciplinary initiative, The Law and Neuroscience Project, that created teams (termed “research networks”) of lawyers, neuroscientists and philosophers to explore the appropriate conceptual relation of neuroscience and law and to engage in empirical investigations that would demonstrate the specific relevance of neuroscience to law. Although there was a substantial range of opinion among Project participants about the potential relevance of neuroscience to criminal law, it became apparent that a basic primer or handbook that set forth a statement of the relation as the authors understand it at present would be enormously helpful to practicing lawyers, judges, and legal policy makers as they increasingly were confronted with claims based on neuroscience information. The goal is to provide accurate information and to clarify the basic questions that will inevitable arise so that the criminal law can avoid confusion and mistakes based on inadequate understanding.