Description
Discover the most up-to-date information on the forensic neuroscience of violence
Forensic Neuroscience and Violence offers a contemporary, rigorous, and comprehensive examination of the intersection of neuroscience, violence, and the law. Drawing on the most current empirical research, this volume explores neurodevelopmental, psychiatric, and neurological conditions and empirically based risk factors associated with violent and sexually violent behavior, while translating complex neuroscientific findings into meaningful forensic and legal applications in the courtroom. Informed by feedback from leading scholars and forensic professionals, the book integrates interdisciplinary perspectives from neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, and law.
Through detailed case examples and relevant caselaw, the book examines the forensic use of neuropsychological assessment and neuroimaging methods within criminal legal proceedings, presenting forensic neuroscience, neurocriminology, and neurolaw in a fundamental, coherent, and practical manner. Particular emphasis is placed on the neuroanatomy of brain dysfunction in both juvenile and adult offender populations, and on how these impairments relate to violence and the specific forensic legal questions posed to experts.
Authored by John Matthew Fabian, PSY.D., J.D., ABPP, a nationally recognized expert in forensic psychology and neuropsychology, this work integrates decades of clinical, forensic, and courtroom experience. Dr. Fabian provides a meticulous analysis of neuropsychological and neuroscientific risk factors for violence and aggression, demonstrating how these findings inform forensic mental health assessment, expert testimony, and the law.
Forensic Neuroscience and Violence is an essential resource for professionals in forensic neuropsychology, forensic psychology, forensic psychiatry, and neurocriminology, as well as for attorneys, judges, graduate students, researchers, and academics working at the intersection of neuroscience and the criminal justice system. It will also earn a valued place in the libraries of those working in violence and sexual violence risk assessment, criminal behavior and neurocriminology, developmental psychopathology, social work, addiction and dual-diagnosis, and related disciplines.
Table of Contents
About the Editor x
About the Contributors xi
Foreword xix
Preface xxi
Section I Neurodevelopment and Violence 1
1 Complex Trauma, Attachment, Neurodevelopment, and Violence 3
John Matthew Fabian
2 The Neuroscience Behind Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) and Violence 43
Natalie Novick Brown
3 The Intellectually Disabled Violent Offender 69
Stephen Greenspan and John Driscoll
4 Neuroscience of Autistic Violence 86
John Matthew Fabian and Clare Sarah Allely
5 Neuroscience of Language Disorders and Violence 102
John Matthew Fabian
6 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders and Developmental Criminality and Violence 115
Robert Eme
7 The Antisocial & Conduct Disordered Juvenile Offender: A Neurodevelopmental Perspective 136
Daniel F. Connor and Michael Chen
8 Neuroscience of Conduct Disorder 149
John Matthew Fabian
9 Traumatic Brain Injury and the Juvenile Offender 174
John Matthew Fabian
10 Adolescent Homicide and the Brain 185
John Matthew Fabian
11 Developmental Neurolegal Perspectives of Adolescent Sexual Offending and Juvenile Delinquency 195
Hugo B. Morais and Kelcey L. Puszkiewicz
Section II Neuroscience of Psychiatric Disorders, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Violence 203
12 A Neurobiological Perspective of Violence in Schizophrenia: Risk Factors, Explanatory Models, and Violence Risk Assessment 205
John Stratton and Robert E. Hanlon
13 Neuroscience of Bipolar Disorder and Violence 220
Norma Verdolini, Isabella Pacchiarotti, Anna Giménez-Palomo, Susana Gomes-da-Costa, Gerard Anmella, Giovanna Fico, Lidia Ilzarbe, Lluc Colomer, Eduard Vieta, and John Matthew Fabian
14 The Veteran Who Kills: PTSD, TBI, and the Brain 239
Cynthia Boyd
15 Borderline Personality Disorder, Violence, and the Brain 258
Jaeger Lam, Elizabeth Infante, and Anthony C. Ruocco
16 Neuroscience of Violence and Suicidal Behavior 275
Birgit Ludwig and Yogesh Dwivedi
17 Traumatic Brain Injury and Violence in Adults 288
David Paul, Sanjay Adhia, and Annette M. LananCrain
18 Forensic Neuroscience, Epilepsy, and Violence 303
John Matthew Fabian
19 Executive Functioning in Criminal Offender Populations 311
Tânia Seruca
20 The Neuropsychology of Executive Functioning and Violence 327
Jesse Meijers, Joke M. Harte, and Gerben Meynen
Section III Neuroscience and Criminal Offender Typologies 341
21 Neuroscience of Reactive versus Instrumental Violent Offenders 343
John Matthew Fabian
22 The Psychopathic Offender 356
Nathaniel E. Anderson, Lyn Gaudet Kiehl, and Kent A. Kiehl
23 Neuropsychological, Neurodevelopmental, and Psychosocial Risk Factors in Serial and Mass Murderers 374
Clare Sarah Allely
24 Neuropsychology and Neuroimaging with Male Batterers and Domestic Violence Perpetrators 412
Natalia Bueso-Izquierdo, Natalia Hidalgo-Ruzzante, Julia C. Daugherty, and Miguel Pérez-García
25 Neuroscience of the Adult Stalker 422
Donatella Marazziti
Section IV Neuroscience of Sex Offenders 433
26 The Neuroscience of Adolescent and Adult Male Sex Offenders 435
Hugo B. Morais and Christian C. Joyal
27 Neuroscience of Pedophiles and Child Molesters 447
Gilian Tenbergen, Jonas Kneer, Charlotte Gibbels, and Tillmann Krueger
28 Neuroscience of Rapists and Sexual Murderers 461
John Matthew Fabian
Section V Neuroscience of Substance Use and Violence 475
29 Substance Abuse and Violence: Neurobiological, Neuropsychological, and Neuropsychiatric Perspectives 477
Jonathan J. Lipman
30 Neurocognitive Deficits, Substance Abuse, and Violence 503
Diana Fishbein and Jacoba Rock
31 Neuroscience of Alcoholism and Violence 517
John Matthew Fabian and Shawn K. Acheson
32 Schizophrenia, Methamphetamine-Induced Psychosis, the Brain, and Violence 534
John Matthew Fabian
Section VI Contemporary Issues in Forensic Neuroscience 575
33 Forensic Neuropsychological Assessment of Violence 577
Charles J. Golden, Jason Jimenez, and Lisa K. Lashley
34 Neuroimaging of Aggression and Violence 591
Tania M. Michaels, Vivek Datta, and Joseph R. Simpson
35 Neurology of Aggression 606
Pamela Blake
36 Neurological Evaluation of Violent Offenders 621
John A. Bertelson
37 Applications of Forensic Neuroscience and the Law 643
Gary E. Marchant
38 Neuroscience, Violence, Criminal Responsibility and Culpability 655
Valerie Gray Hardcastle
39 Neuroscience and Violence Risk Assessment 670
John Matthew Fabian
40 Forensic Neuroscience and the Law: The Brain on Trial 678
John Matthew Fabian
Index 697
