Overview

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 advances could 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. Neurointerventions 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 integrity and 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 of misguided, harmful and unwarrantedly coercive use of neurotechnological 'solutions' to criminality.The Engaging Philosophy series is a new forum for collective philosophical engagement with controversial issues in contemporary society.

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Author:   David Birks (Departmental Lecturer in Political Theory/Early Career Research Fellow, Departmental Lecturer in Political Theory/Early Career Research Fellow, University of Oxford) ,  Thomas Douglas (Senior Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.726kg
ISBN:  

9780198758617

ISBN 10:   0198758618
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   08 November 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part One: Setting the Scene 1: Christopher Chew, Thomas Douglas, and Nadira Faber: Biological Interventions for Crime Prevention 2: Lisa Forsberg: Crime-Preventing Neurointerventions and the Law: Learning from Anti-Libidinal Interventions 3: Matt Matravers: The Importance of Context in Thinking About Crime Preventing Neurointerventions 4: Jonathan Pugh: Coercion and the Neurocorrective Offer Part Two: Defending CPNs and Diffusing Objections 5: Jeff McMahan: Moral Liability to Crime-Preventing Neurointervention 6: Peter Vallentyne: Neurointerventions, Self-Ownership, and Enforcement Rights 7: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen: The Self-Ownership Trilemma, Extended Minds, and Neurointerventions 8: Emma Bullock: Moral Paternalism and Neurointerventions 9: Jesper Ryberg: Neuroscientific Treatment of Criminals and Penal Theory 10: Hallie Liberto: Chemical Castration and the Violation of Sexual Rights 11: Thomas Douglas: Neural and Environmental Modulation of Motivation: What's the Moral Difference? 12: John McMillan: Containing Violence and Controlling Desire 13: Mathew Clayton and Andres Moles: Neurointerventions, Morality and Children Part Three: Against CPNs 14: Christopher Bennett: Intrusive Intervention and Opacity Respect 15: Emily McTernan: Those Who Forget the Past: An Ethical Challenge from the History of Treating Deviance 16: Jan Christoph Bublitz: 'The Soul Is the Prison of the Body': Mandatory Moral Enhancement, Punishment and Rights Against Neuro-Rehabilitation 17: Elizabeth Shaw: Against the Mandatory Use of Neurointerventions in Criminal Sentencing 18: Zofia Stemplowska: Should Coercive Neurointerventions Target the Victims of Wrongdoing? 19: David Birks: Can Neurointerventions Communicate Censure? (And so what if they can t?)

Reviews

The nineteen essays in this book comprehensively cover and effectively advance the moral debate over the appropriate use of CPNs...the essays in the book are original, they also serve as a good entry point into a moral issue that has arguably received inadequate attention. * Jason Hanna, Criminal Law and Philosophy *

Author Information

David Birks is a Departmental Lecturer in Political Theory at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and an Early Career Research Fellow at the Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH), University of Oxford. He was previously a Junior Research Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Experimental Medicine, University of Kiel. His research focuses on issues such as paternalism, perfectionism, punishment, and public reason. Thomas Douglas is a Senior Research Fellow in the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Practical Ethics.

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