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
Nita Farahany is associate professor of law and an associate professor of philosophy 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).
"Recent developments in behavioral genetics have tremendous
potential for understanding crime; yet they also create great
dangers of abuse in criminal trials as well as policies. These
profound and important issues are discussed in depth from various
disciplinary perspectives by the prominent and learned contributors
to this well-organized and accessible volume. It should be read by
anyone interested in where our legal system is headed."
--Walter Sinnott-Armstrong,
Dartmouth College, Co-director, MacArthur Law and Neuroscience
Project
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