This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to criminological theory for
students taking courses in criminology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level …

Criminal offenders are sometimes required, by the institutions of criminal justice, to undergo
medical interventions intended to promote rehabilitation. Ethical debate regarding this …

Emerging neurotechnology offers increasingly individualised brain information, enabling
researchers to identify mental states and content. When accurate and valid, these brain …

According to a number of influential views in penal theory, 1 one of the primary goals of the
criminal justice system is to rehabilitate offenders. Rehabilitative measures are commonly …

In recent years, direct brain interventions (DBIs) have shown increased success in
manipulating neurobiological processes often associated with moral reasoning and decision …

How should we punish criminal offenders? One prima facie attractive punishment is
administering a mandatory neurointervention—“interventions that exert a physical, chemical …

A central tenet of medical ethics holds that it is permissible to perform a medical intervention
on a competent individual only if that individual has given informed consent to the …

“Committing a crime might render one morally liable to certain forms of medical intervention”,
claims Thomas Douglas, who stated in this context that “compulsory uses of medical …

In this paper we examine one reason for rejecting the view that violent offenders should be
forced to undergo neurotechnological treatments (NTs) involving such therapies as …

This chapter will focus on the biomedical moral enhancement of offenders–the idea that we
could modify offenders' brains in order to reduce the likelihood that they would engage in …