Conviction: the making and unmaking of the violent brain

"Neurocriminology's focus on the brain and reliance on cutting-edge technologies have helped to rewrite its history as a science used to support eugenics, racism, and genocide, and reclaim the program's credibility. However, as Oliver Rollins carefully elucidates, many questions remai...

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Main Author: Rollins, Oliver (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California Stanford University Press 2021
In:Year: 2021
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Keywords:
Violence > Physiological aspects
Neurosciences > Moral and ethical aspects
Neurosciences > Social aspects
Aggressivität > Gewalttätigkeit > Neurowissenschaften
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: 1737290529
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Summary:"Neurocriminology's focus on the brain and reliance on cutting-edge technologies have helped to rewrite its history as a science used to support eugenics, racism, and genocide, and reclaim the program's credibility. However, as Oliver Rollins carefully elucidates, many questions remain about how this new rendition of an old scientific tradition will address accusations of bias and discrimination that have surrounded it since its inception. Rollins argues that because controversy has always been part of its story it is now being leveraged by scientists to justify new developments, and thus continued use of, the research"--
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 225 Seiten)
ISBN:9781503627901
DOI:10.1515/9781503627901