Screen LibraryBioprediction, biomarkers, and bad behavior : scientific, legal, and ethical challenges /
Many decisions in the legal system and elsewhere depend on predictions of bad behaviors, including crimes and mental illnesses. Some scientists have suggested recently that these predictions can become more accurate and useful if they are based in part on biological information, such as brain struct...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford series in neuroscience, law, and philosophy
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http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=90cf6e8c89c941dd98b323419b8f7f50 |
| Summary: |
Many decisions in the legal system and elsewhere depend on predictions of bad behaviors, including crimes and mental illnesses. Some scientists have suggested recently that these predictions can become more accurate and useful if they are based in part on biological information, such as brain structure and function, genes, and hormones. The prospect of such bioprediction, however, raises serious concerns about errors and injustice. Can biological information significantly increase the accuracy of predictions of bad behavior? Will innocent or harmless people be mistakenly treated as if they were guilty or dangerous? Is it fair to keep people in prisons or mental institutions longer because of their biology? Will these new instruments of bioprediction be abused in practice within current institutions? Is bioprediction worth the cost? Do we want our government to use biology in this way? All of these scientific, legal, and ethical questions are discussed in this volume. The contributors are prominent neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, ethicists, and legal scholars. This volume will interest everyone with hopes that bioprediction will solve problems or fears that bioprediction will be applied unjustly. -- Publisher website. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xii, 247 pages), 8 unnumbered pages) of plates) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199844197 |
| Index Number: | HV6047 |
| CLC: | B846 |
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Foreword / Contributors -- Introduction : deviance, classification, and bioprediction / Behavioral biomarkers : what are they good for? : toward the ethical use of biomarkers / Bioprediction in youth justice / The inclusion of biological risk factors in violence risk assessments / Bioprediction in criminal cases / The limits of legal use of neuroscience / Rethinking the implications of discovering biomarkers for biologically based criminality / MAOA and the bioprediction of antisocial behavior : science fact and science fiction / Genetic biomarker research of callous-unemotional traits in children : implications for the law and policymaking / The neural code for intentions in the human brain / Biomarkers : potentials and challenges / Neuroimaging-based automatic classification of schizophrenia / Index. |