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Dangerousness, Disability, And Dna, Christopher Slobogin
Dangerousness, Disability, And Dna, Christopher Slobogin
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
This Article honors three of Professor Arnold Loewy's articles. The first, published over thirty years ago, is entitled Culpability, Dangerousness, and Harm: Balancing the Factors on Which Our Criminal Law is Predicated,' and the second is his 2009 article, The Two Faces of Insanity. In addition to commenting on these two articles about substantive criminal law, I can't resist also saying something about one of Professor Loewy's procedural pieces, A Proposal for the Universal Collection of DNA, published in 2015.
A theme that unites all three of these articles is that they appear to be quite radical, at least on …
Behavioral Genetics And Crime, In Context, Owen D. Jones
Behavioral Genetics And Crime, In Context, Owen D. Jones
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
This Article provides an introduction to some of the key issues at the intersection of behavioral genetics and crime.
It provides, among other things, an overview of the emerging points of consensus, scientifically, on what behavioral genetics can and cannot tell us about criminal behavior. It also discusses a variety of important implications (as well as complexities) of attempting to use insights of behavioral genetics in legal contexts.