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Incarceration. Are there certainly people who we actually think would be better off in prison than not being in prison . Those types of decisions, i think, are going to be much more useful coming out of the neuroscience in the near term. In the long term, maybe we can get to the point where we make individualized decisionmaking, but so far it hasnt actually panned out. To all of you, do you think that it would be appropriate to keep this out of the courtroom, for instance, until there is a lot m...

Be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. That is what happened to Abigail Fisher. It is not disputed. She was treated differently because of her race and color and national origin. Now, we are not going to be talking so much about title vi my when we talk about the constitution. The Supreme Court said it doesnt really mean what it says. We just think it means what the constitution means. Constitution has a little bit more wiggle room. A...

An interesting question. Should we have a more robust concept of diminished responsibility in light of the understanding that some people have less control over their preferences and desires or should we have better sentencing schemes or get rid of incarceration and come up with different models of trying to deal with punishment once we understand people have wrong selections. I think those are all interesting questions, but is there free will . Well, the fact that almost everybody in the audien...

It . Now that we understand that those of us in the audience or up here that like chocolate cake may not have control over it, how do we want to account for that if at all in the criminal Justice System . To date, we havent. In the future, we may wish to. I agree with that. I think that, first of all, the fact that everybody in the audience could control themselves raising their hands gives me some comfort as i walk out the door, but one of the problems with the disconnect that i was alluding to...

With different models of trying to deal with punishment once we understand people have wrong selections. I think those are all interesting questions, but is there free will . Well, the fact that almost everybody in the audience raised either their right or left hand contemplated it and were quickly able to act and respond. That to me says, yes, there is. Now what do we want to do about it . Now that we understand that those of us in the audience or up here that like chocolate cake may not have c...

Of incarceration and come up with different models of trying to deal with punishment once we understand people have wrong selections. I think those are all interesting questions, but is there free will . Well, the fact that almost everybody in the audience raised either their right or left hand contemplated it and were quickly able to act and respond. That to me says, yes, there is. Now what do we want to do about it . Now that we understand that those of us in the audience or up here that like ...

Conduct based on what we would expect of a person who has that type of brain structure who had these types of environmental factors and then start to think about how we want to treat them. Do we want to hold those people responsible for their actions or less responsible for their actions. Are there certain people who would be better subject to medical treatment instead of incarceration. Are there certainly people who we actually think would be better off in prison than not being in prison . Thos...

Where one year ago i was boarding up the house we could go, i was boarding up the house, and there was evacuation issue here for the tempe up for the tampa area. We were getting ready for a total evacuation and by tuesday, the storm inched to the east a little bit on the track. Our good fortune in the tampa bay area, really, a lot of folks are feeling almost guilty this monday morning because of the discretion, this question destruction, devastation and the death toll in the lee county area. The...

Useful either as aggravation or as mitigation. So i have been doing an empirical study over the past six years now to look at, introduction in criminal cases. Its equivocal at best. It sometimes ends up being aggravating, but so far it hasnt panned out. Why hasnt it panned out . In part because science isnt quite there yet in that were able to see some things at a group level, but being able to talk bay single individual to look at their brain and to understand the extent to which their brain di...

Particular case whether a person is an automoton, usually you can. The law has a bright line. It says if you engage in a wongful action, there is a defense called the insanity defense which never works as most of us know because we dont recognize it. Should we recognize it, thats an interesting question. Should we have a more robust concept of diminished responsibility in light of the understanding that some people have less control over their preferences and desires or should we have better sen...