I’m very excited to be speaking at a conference in early summer on Stephen Morse’s important work in neurolaw. The conference aims to take critical appraisal of Professor Morse’s views, in hope of providing him with useful reflections as he turns his attention to writing his upcoming book Desert and Disease: Responsibility and Social Control. The conference will run over […]
I’ve posted a link below to my final contribution to the Law and Neuroethics blog. I think it provides a good synopsis of why scientific psychology, including neuroscience, is relevant to the criminal law. On The Relevance of Neuroscience to Criminal Law
I’m not entirely sold on the author’s interpretation of our work, but it is nice to get some international press. Article in Pravda
Adam Kolberg has kindly asked me to guest on his fantastic Neuroethics & Law blog this month. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the blog, I strongly suggest you check it out: http://kolber.typepad.com/. A permanent link to my first post is here: http://kolber.typepad.com/ethics_law_blog/2013/01/new-guest-blogger-for-the-month-of-january-by-katrina-sifferd.html
My most recent paper, written with Bill Hirstein, has been published (see link below). Contact me if you would like me to send you the penultimate draft. On the Criminal Culpability of Successful and Unsuccessful Psychopaths
A recent Psychology Today blog discusses Bill Hirstein’s and my research on legal culpability. In an earlier article, we claimed that legal principles can be understood as tacitly singling out executive processes in the brain, including principles regarding defendants’ intentions or plans to commit crimes and their awareness that certain facts are the case (for instance, […]
Traditional rehabilitative programs such as anger management and behavioral therapy often aim both at enhancing an offenders’ reasoning processes and diminishing dispositions to act in a harmful way. For example, anger management therapy may train an offender to stop and count slowly to ten before acting upon a feeling of anger. This encourages the use […]
