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Bioprediction, Biomarkers, and Bad Behavior: Scientific, Legal, and Ethical Challenges

Bioprediction, Biomarkers, and Bad Behavior: Scientific, Legal, and Ethical Challenges

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Series: Oxford Neuroscience, Law, and Philosophy

General PsychologyMental Health

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ISBN10: 0199844186
ISBN13: 9780199844180
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Published: Oct 18 2013
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
Many decisions in the legal system and elsewhere depend on predictions of bad behaviors, including crimes and mental illnesses. Some scientists have suggested recently that these predictions can become more accurate and useful if they are based in part on biological information, such as brain structure and function, genes, and hormones. The prospect of such bioprediction, however, raises serious concerns about errors and injustice. Can biological information significantly increase the accuracy of predictions of bad behavior? Will innocent or harmless people be mistakenly treated as if they were guilty or dangerous? Is it fair to keep people in prisons or mental institutions longer because of their biology? Will these new instruments of bioprediction be abused in practice within current institutions? Is bioprediction worth the cost? Do we want our government to use biology in this way? All of these scientific, legal, and ethical questions are discussed in this volume. The

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