Forensic Neuroscience and Violence delivers a contemporary, detailed, and thorough exploration of the burgeoning field of neuroscience, violence, and the law. The book brings together the most recent empirical research on the neuroscience of various violent and sexually violent criminal offender populations and a variety of neuordevelopmental, psychiatric, and neurological disorders that may place an individual at risk for violence. Forensic application of neuorpsychological assessment and neuorimaging methods to legal proceedings (neurolaw) will be explored through case examples and caselaw. The book constitutes the most comprehensive and internationally relevant resource for a wide range of forensic practitioners, graduate students, legal scholars, and academics in the field of forensic neuorscience and neurocriminology.
The book specifically emphasizes the most current neuropsychological and neuroimaging research on violent and sexually violent offender populations as well as neuorpsychiatric and neurological conditions that lead to violance, and ultimately, to the courtroom. The book presents forensic neuroscience, neurocriminology, and neurolaw in a fundamental, coherent, and practical manner.
The distinguished author, John Matthew Fabian, a national expert in a forensic psychology and neuropsychology, presents a detailed and profound analysis of the neuroscience of both psychiatric and neurological disorders focusing on both brain structure and function and their relationship to violence. The author presents a comprehensive, precise, and meticulous overview of the neuroanatomy of violence in both juvenile and adult offendrs as well as with particular psychiatric and neurological disorders that he has encountered in his forensic practice as an expert witness in forensic neuropsychology and the law.
The book addresses neuropsychological and neuroscientific empirically based risk factors for violence and aggression while applying these findings to forensic mental health assessment and criminal legal proceedings.
Readers will also benefit from the inclusion of the application of brain dysfunction often found in certain offender populations and neuropsychiatric disorders, with an emphasis on how these impairments apply to violence and specific forensic legal questions asked of experts in the courtroom.
Perfect for professionals in forensic neuropsychology, forensic psychology, forensic psychiatry and neurocriminology and the law.
Forensic Neuroscience and Violence will also earn a worthy place in the libraries of researchers and academics in specialty topics such as violence and sexual violence risk assessment, criminal behavior and neurocriminology, and developmental psychopathology, professionals in social work, addiction and dual-diagnosis, and certainly criminal lawyers.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Anthony Beech
Preface
John Fabian
SECTION I: THE JUVENILE OFFENDER
1. The Antisocial & Conduct Disordered Juvenile Offender: A Neurodevelopmental Perspective
CONNOR
2. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders and Developmental Criminality and Violence
ROBERT EME
3. The Neuroscience of Language Disorders and Violence
JOHN FABIAN
4. The Neuropsychology and Neuroimaging of Conduct Disorder
JOHN FABIAN
5. Traumatic Brain Injury in Juveniles
JOHN FABIAN
6. Adolescent Homicide and the Brain
JOHN FABIAN
7. Complex Trauma, Attachment, Neurodevelopment, and Violence
JOHN FABIAN
8. The Adolescent Sex Offender
CHRISTIAN JOYAL
SECTION II: THE ADULT OFFENDER
9. A Neurobiological Perspective on Violence in Schizophrenia: Risk Factors, Explanatory Models, and Violence Risk Assessment
JOHN STRATTON & ROBERT HANLON
10. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
NATALIE KOVAC BROWN
11. NEUROSCIENCE OF THE DOMESTIC MALE BATTERER
NATALIA BUESO-IZQUIERDO
12. The Mentally Retarded/Intellectually Disabled Violent Offender
STEPHEN GREENSPAN AND JOHN DRISCOLL
13. Substance Abuse and Violence: Neurobiological, Neuropsychological, and Neuropsychiatric Perspectives
JONATHAN LIPMAN
14. Neurocognitive Deficits, Substance Abuse, and Violence
Diane Fishbein
15. Neuroscience of Alcoholism and Violence
Shawn Acheson
16. Neuroscience of Violence and Suicidal Behavior
Yogesh Dwivedi
17. The Neuroscience of Reactive versus Instrumental Violent Offenders
John Fabian
18. Executive Functioning in Criminal Offender Populations
Tânia Seruca
19. Borderline Personality Disorder, Violence and the Brain
ANTHONY RUOCCO
20. The Adult Stalker
DONATELLA MARAZZITI
21. The Psychopathic Offender
LYNN KIEHL
22. Traumatic Brain Injury and Violence in Adults
ADHIA
23. The Veteran who kills: PTSD, TBI, and the Brain
CYNTHIA BOYD
24. Neuroscience of Autistic Violence
CLARE ALLELY
25. Bipolar Disorder and Violence
Norma Verdolini
26. Schizophrenia, Methamphetamine and Violence
John Fabian
SECTION III: SEX OFFENDERS
27. Pedophiles and Child Molesters
GILIAN TENBERGEN
28. The Neuroscience of Rapists and Sexual Murderers
JOHN FABIAN
29. Neuroscience of Adolescent and Adult Male Sex Offenders
Hugo Morais
SECTION IV: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN FORENSIC NEUROSCIENCE
30. Forensic Neuropsychological Assessment of Violence
CHARLES GOLDEN
31. Neuroimaging of Aggression and Violence
JOSEPH SIMPSON VIVEK DATTA
32. Neurological Examinations with Violent Offenders
Jon Bertelson
33. Applications of Forensic Neuroscience and the Law
Gary Marchant & James Francis
34. Neurology of Aggression
Pamela Blake
35. Neuropsychology of Executive Functioning and Violence
Jessie Meijers
36. Neuropsychological, Neurodevelopmental and Psychosocial Risk Factors in Serial and Mass Murderers
Clare Allely
37. Neuroscience, Violence, Criminal Responsibility and Culpability
Valerie Gray Hardcastle
38. Neuroscience and Violence Risk Assessment
John Fabian
