Forensic Neuroscience and Violence

Discover the most up-to-date information on the forensic neuroscience of violence

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.

Auteur

John Matthew Fabian is a board certified forensic and clinical psychologist, with certification and fellowship training in clinical neuropsychology. He practices as both a forensic psychologist and neuropsychologist. He has experience as a director of a court psychiatric clinic and staff forensic psychologist at a maximum security forensic hospital and has evaluated approximately 2500 adult offenders, 500 juvenile offenders, and over 200 murder cases. He has testified approximately 150 times in courts throughout the United States

Contenu

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