‘Brain-Reading’ in Criminal Justice and Forensic Psychiatry: Towards an Integrative Legal-Ethical Approach

Sjors Ligthart; Tijs Kooijmans; Gerben Meynen

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-69277-3_6

‘Brain-Reading’ in Criminal Justice and Forensic Psychiatry: Towards an Integrative Legal-Ethical Approach

Sjors Ligthart, Tijs Kooijmans, Gerben Meynen

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Whereas brain-reading technologies could, in principle, strengthen forensic psychiatric evaluations, deploying brain-reading in this context also raises fundamental, interwoven ethical and legal questions. Although both in ethics and in the law similar questions arise in this respect, the legal and ethical debates tend to be separated from each other. This chapter aims to provide some further direction on how ethics and the law could learn from each other in the debate on forensic brain-reading. We argue that although ethical analysis can be very informative for the law, we should be careful in extrapolating ethical arguments into the legal debate. Conversely, legal doctrines can—and should—sometimes inform ethics as well.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Neurolaw
Subtitle of host publication	Advances in Neuroscience, Justice & Security
Editors	Sjors Ligthart, Dave van Toor, Tijs Kooijmans, Thomas Douglas, Gerben Meynen
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	121-141
Number of pages	21
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-69277-3
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-69276-6, 978-3-030-69279-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69277-3_6
Publication status	Published - 6 May 2021

Publication series

Name	Palgrave Studies in Law, Neuroscience, and Human Behavior
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
ISSN (Print)	2946-5192
ISSN (Electronic)	2946-5206

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Ligthart, S., Kooijmans, T., & Meynen, G. (2021). ‘Brain-Reading’ in Criminal Justice and Forensic Psychiatry: Towards an Integrative Legal-Ethical Approach. In S. Ligthart, D. V. Toor, T. Kooijmans, T. Douglas, & G. Meynen (Eds.), Neurolaw: Advances in Neuroscience, Justice & Security (1 ed., pp. 121-141). (Palgrave Studies in Law, Neuroscience, and Human Behavior). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69277-3_6

Ligthart, Sjors ; Kooijmans, Tijs ; Meynen, Gerben. / ‘Brain-Reading’ in Criminal Justice and Forensic Psychiatry : Towards an Integrative Legal-Ethical Approach. Neurolaw: Advances in Neuroscience, Justice & Security. editor / Sjors Ligthart ; Dave van Toor ; Tijs Kooijmans ; Thomas Douglas ; Gerben Meynen. 1. ed. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. pp. 121-141 (Palgrave Studies in Law, Neuroscience, and Human Behavior).

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Ligthart, S, Kooijmans, T & Meynen, G 2021, ‘Brain-Reading’ in Criminal Justice and Forensic Psychiatry: Towards an Integrative Legal-Ethical Approach. in S Ligthart, DV Toor, T Kooijmans, T Douglas & G Meynen (eds), Neurolaw: Advances in Neuroscience, Justice & Security. 1 edn, Palgrave Studies in Law, Neuroscience, and Human Behavior, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 121-141. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69277-3_6

‘Brain-Reading’ in Criminal Justice and Forensic Psychiatry: Towards an Integrative Legal-Ethical Approach. / Ligthart, Sjors; Kooijmans, Tijs; Meynen, Gerben.
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Ligthart S, Kooijmans T, Meynen G. ‘Brain-Reading’ in Criminal Justice and Forensic Psychiatry: Towards an Integrative Legal-Ethical Approach. In Ligthart S, Toor DV, Kooijmans T, Douglas T, Meynen G, editors, Neurolaw: Advances in Neuroscience, Justice & Security. 1 ed. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2021. p. 121-141. (Palgrave Studies in Law, Neuroscience, and Human Behavior). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-69277-3_6

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