FYS 168 NeuroLaw: The Neuroscience of Mitigation
This course explores basic scientific findings in affective and cognitive neuroscience and their relevance for legal rules and criminal procedural standards. As an interdisciplinary course, it integrates ecological, medical, ethics and behavioral-economic concepts to explore the multitude of factors that simultaneously drive criminal behavior and constrain the mechanisms of justice. Special attention will be paid to the role of structural inequalities and early adverse experiences on brain development, as a potential target of future social programs with an aim towards mitigation and restorative justice.