Part I. Setting the scene. Biological interventions for crime prevention / Christopher Chew, Thomas Douglas, and Nadira S. Faber -- Crime-preventing neurointerventions and the law : learning from anti-libidinal interventions / Lisa Forsberg -- The importance of context in thinking about crime-preventing neurointerventions / Matt Matravers -- Coercion and the neurocorrective offer / Jonathan Pugh -- Part II. Defending CPNs and diffusing objections. Moral liability to 'crime-preventing neurointervention' / Jeff McMahan -- Neurointerventions, self-ownership, and enforcement rights / Peter Vallentyne -- The self-ownership trilemma, extended minds, and neurointerventions / Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen -- Moral paternalism and neurointerventions / Emma Bullock -- Neuroscientific treatment of criminals and penal theory / Jesper Ryberg -- Chemical castration and the violation of sexual rights / Hallie Liberto -- Neural and environmental modulation of motivation : what's the moral difference? / Thomas Douglas -- Containing violence and controlling desire / John McMillan -- Neurointerventions, morality, and children / Matthew Clayton and Andres Moles -- Part III. Against CPNs -- Intrusive intervention and opacity respect / Christopher Bennett -- Those who forget the past : an ethical challenge from the history of treating deviance / Emily McTernan -- 'The soul is the prison of the body' : mandatory moral enhancement, punishment, and rights against neurorehabilitation / Jan Christoph Bublitz -- Against the mandatory use of neurointerventions in criminal sentencing / Elizabeth Shaw -- Should coercive neurointerventions target the victims of wrongdoing? / Zofia Stemplowska -- Can neurointerventions communicate censure? (and so what if they can't?) / David Birks.
Summary:
Preventing recidivism is one of the aims of criminal justice, yet existing means of pursuing this aim are often poorly effective, highly restrictive of basic freedoms, and significantly harmful. Incarceration, for example, tends to be disruptive of personal relationships and careers, detrimental to physical and mental health, restrictive of freedom of movement, and rarely more than modestly effective at preventing recidivism. Crime-preventing neurointerventions(CPNs) are increasingly being advocated, and there is a growing use of testosterone-lowering agents to prevent recidivism in sexual offenders, and strong political and scientific interest in developing pharmaceutical treatments for psychopathy and anti-social behaviour. Future neuroscientific advancescould yield further CPNs; we could ultimately have at our disposal a range of drugs capable of suppressing violent aggression and it is not difficult to imagine possible applications of such drugs in crime prevention. 0Neurointerventions hold out the promise of preventing recidivism in ways that are both more effective, and more humane. But should neurointerventions be used in crime prevention? And may the state ever permissibly impose CPNs as part of the criminal justice process, either unconditionally, or as a condition of parole or early release? The use of CPNs raises several ethical concerns, as they could be highly intrusive and may threaten fundamental human values, such as bodily integrityand freedom of thought. In the first book-length treatment of this topic, Treatment for Crime, brings together original contributions from internationally renowned moral and political philosophers to address these questions and consider the possible issues, recognizing how humanity has a track record ofmisguided, harmful and unwarrantedly coercive use of neurotechnological 'solutions' to criminality.
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