Persuasive technologies and the right to mental liberty the 'smart' rehabilitation of criminal offenders
This chapter explores whether and how legal rights do, or ought to, protect mental liberty, with particular focus on protection against smart rehabilitation. We argue that current legal protection for mental liberty is unclear, and that, in seeking to clarify this protection for the purposes of asse...
| Main Authors: | , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge (UK)
Cambridge University Press
2022, 2022
|
| Online Access: | |
| Collection: | National Center for Biotechnology Information - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This chapter explores whether and how legal rights do, or ought to, protect mental liberty, with particular focus on protection against smart rehabilitation. We argue that current legal protection for mental liberty is unclear, and that, in seeking to clarify this protection for the purposes of assessing smart rehabilitation, three considerations are relevant: whether an intervention engages rational processes, whether it is resistible, and whether it operates via psychological channels. However, although these considerations might provide helpful guidance in the examination of smart rehabilitation in light of mental liberty, they also raise difficult questions |
|---|---|
| Item Description: | Chapter 3 of the book: Cambridge handbook of information technology, life sciences, and human rights .Cambridge (UK) : Cambridge University Press, 2022 |
| Physical Description: | 1 PDF file (18 pages) |