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Neuroscience and Criminal Responsibility: A Review Essay  


Author:  Fred Cohen.


Source: Volume 09, Number 03, September/October 2007 , pp.39-40(2 )




Correctional Mental Health Report

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Abstract: 

Consideration of how the the foundations of our criminal law - free will, individual responsibility, and just desserts - would need to changeto accommodate neuroscience’s possible new understanding of behavior comes into question.

Keywords: Jeffrey Rosen, New York Times, “The Brain on the Stand”

Affiliations:  1: Executive Editor.

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