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Brain and Crime

  • 1st Edition, Volume 197 - August 24, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Hanna Swaab, Gerben Meynen
  • Language: English

Brain and Crime, Volume 197 reviews the relation between brain function and aggressive and rule-breaking (criminal) behavior.  The book's focus is on the violation of social rule… Read more

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Description

Brain and Crime, Volume 197 reviews the relation between brain function and aggressive and rule-breaking (criminal) behavior. The book's focus is on the violation of social rules and not on violation of regulations that are different in different counties. It discusses the development of this behavior from childhood into adulthood, along with the mechanisms associated with the risk for aggression and rule-breaking behavior. In addition, it explores from a behavioral level concepts like psychopathology, syndrome and concepts from law, such as crime, defendant and offender. Finally, sections explore brain function, including emotion, cognitive processes, and decision-making.

From the perspective of brain structure, the book covers brain networks and brain disorders. In genetics, the book includes the influence of genes and the mechanisms of epigenetics. All chapters are intended to provide information for use in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders, and in assessment and prevention.

Key features

  • Discusses the development of rule-breaking (criminal) behavior from childhood into adulthood
  • Covers the influence of genes and the mechanisms of epigenetics
  • Includes the diagnosis and treatment of disorders, along with assessment and prevention

Readership

Clinical neurologists, researchers in neurology

Table of contents

Section I. Introduction

1. Introduction: On brain and crime

Section II. Structure and Function

2. Genetics and epigenetics of human aggression

3. Network localization of antisocial behavior in neurological patients: Evidence and implications

4. Prison and the brain

5. Forensically relevant challenging behaviours and the genetics domain

6. Social-affective functioning and learning in psychopathy

7. Amygdala connectivity and ggression

8. The "(a)moral brain": When things go wrong

Section III. Brain dysfunction

9. Illicit drug use and violence

10. Child maltreatment and victimization

11. Sexual offenses and the brain

12. The risk of criminal behavior in the elderly and patients with neurodegenerative disease

13. Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and the risk of crime

Section IV. Assessment and Treatment

14. Cognition, criminal conduct, and virtual reality: Understanding and reducing offending using simulated environments

15. Added value of neurotechnology for forensic psychiatric and psychological assessment

Section V. Ethics and Law

16. Neurolaw: Challenges and limits

17. Why neuroscience changes some things but not everything for the law

18. Neurotechnology to reduce recidivism: Ethical and legal challenges

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 197
  • Published: August 24, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Hanna Swaab

Hanna Swaab is Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Neuropsychologist, full professor in Clinical Neurodevelopmental Sciences and Director of the outpatient clinic and Center of Expertise LUBEC at Leiden University. Her research concerns neurocognitive mechanisms in neurodevelopmental disorders. She was dean of the faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Leiden University in Leiden from 2013-2019 and is responsible for the post-master certified training programs for specialists in Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology in the Netherlands.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Clinical Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Education and Child Studies & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition LIBC & Leiden Institute for treatment and Expertise LUBEC, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

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Gerben Meynen

Gerben Meynen, psychiatrist, received a PhD in Philosophy as well as in Medicine. He is professor of Forensic Psychiatry, Utrecht University, and professor of Ethics, in particular bioethics, VU University Amsterdam. His research interests include neurolaw and legal insanity. He is principal investigator of the project Law and Ethics of Neurotechnology in Criminal Justice of the research programme Vici (project number VI.C.201.067) which is financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
Affiliations and expertise
Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, School of Law, Utrecht University, the Netherlands; Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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