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Many Decisions In The Legal System And Elsewhere Depend On Predictions Of Bad Behaviors, Including Crimes And Mental Illnesses. Some Scientists Have Suggested Recently That These Predictions Can Become More Accurate And Useful If They Are Based In Part On Biological Information, Such As Brain Structure And Function, Genes, And Hormones. The Prospect Of Such Bioprediction, However, Raises Serious Concerns About Errors And Injustice. Can Biological Information Significantly Increase The Accuracy Of Predictions Of Bad Behavior? Will Innocent Or Harmless People Be Mistakenly Treated As If They Were Guilty Or Dangerous? Is It Fair To Keep People In Prisons Or Mental Institutions Longer Because Of Their Biology? Will These New Instruments Of Bioprediction Be Abused In Practice Within Current Institutions? Is Bioprediction Worth The Cost? Do We Want Our Government To Use Biology In This Way? All Of These Scientific, Legal, And Ethical Questions Are Discussed In This Volume. The Contributors Are Prominent Neuroscientists, Psychologists, Sociologists, Philosophers, Ethicists, And Legal Scholars. This Volume Will Interest Everyone With Hopes That Bioprediction Will Solve Problems Or Fears That Bioprediction Will Be Applied Unjustly. -- Publisher Website. Foreword / Philip Campbell -- Contributors -- Introduction: Deviance, Classification, And Bioprediction / Ilina Singh And Walter P. Sinnott-armstrong -- Behavioral Biomarkers: What Are They Good For?: Toward The Ethical Use Of Biomarkers / Matthew Baum And Julian Savulescu -- Bioprediction In Youth Justice / Charlotte K. Walsh -- The Inclusion Of Biological Risk Factors In Violence Risk Assessments / John Monahan -- Bioprediction In Criminal Cases / Christopher Slobogin -- The Limits Of Legal Use Of Neuroscience / Colin Campbell And Nigel Eastman -- Rethinking The Implications Of Discovering Biomarkers For Biologically Based Criminality / Paul Root Wolpe -- Maoa And The Bioprediction Of Antisocial Behavior: Science Fact And Science Fiction / Joshua W. Buckholtz And Andreas Meyer-lindenberg -- Genetic Biomarker Research Of Callous-unemotional Traits In Children: Implications For The Law And Policymaking / Essi Viding And Eamon Mccrory -- The Neural Code For Intentions In The Human Brain / John-dylan Haynes -- Biomarkers: Potentials And Challenges / Michael Rutter -- Neuroimaging-based Automatic Classification Of Schizophrenia / Vince D. Calhoun And Mohammad R. Arbabshirani -- Index. Edited By Ilina Singh, Walter P. Sinnott-armstrong, Julian Savulescu. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.