Conviction The Making and Unmaking of the Violent Brain
"Neurocriminology's focus on the brain and reliance on cutting-edge technologies have helped to rewrite its history as a science used to support eugenics, racism, and genocide, and reclaim the program's credibility. However, as Oliver Rollins carefully elucidates, many questions remai...
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Stanford, California
Stanford University Press
2021, ©2021
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Biology, violence, and the continued debate
- Finding the "fit"
- Making the violent brain
- Beyond determinism?
- The taboo of race
- Fixing violent brains
- The limits of scientific conviction