Can it be justified to use neuroscientific technologies for influencing the human brain as a means of preventing offenders from engaging in future criminal conduct? In Neurointerventions, Crime, and Punishment, Jesper Ryberg considers various ethical challenges surrounding this question.

• Chapter 1: Neurointerventions and Crime Prevention: Setting the Stage


• Chapter 2: Neurointerventions and Penal Reductions


• Chapter 3: Compulsory Neurointerventions on Offenders


• Chapter 4: Neurointerventions as Punishment


• Chapter 5: Neurointerventions and Physician Participation


• Chapter 6: Neurointerventions and the Lesson from History


• Chapter 7: Neurointerventions and Criminal Justice Practice


• Biography


• Index

Jesper Ryberg is Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Law at Roskilde University, Denmark. He is head of the Research Group for Criminal Justice Ethics and of the Neuroethics and Criminal Justice Project funded by the Danish Research Foundation.