Discover the most up-to-date information on the forensic neuroscience of violence
Forensic Neuroscience and Violence delivers a contemporary, detailed, and thorough exploration of the burgeoning field of neuroscience, violence, and the law. The book brings together the most recent empirical research on the neuroscience of various violent and sexually violent criminal offender populations and a variety of neuordevelopmental, psychiatric, and neurological disorders that may place an individual at risk for violence. Forensic application of neuorpsychological assessment and neuorimaging methods to legal proceedings (neurolaw) will be explored through case examples and caselaw. The book constitutes the most comprehensive and internationally relevant resource for a wide range of forensic practitioners, graduate students, legal scholars, and academics in the field of forensic neuorscience and neurocriminology.
The book specifically emphasizes the most current neuropsychological and neuroimaging research on violent and sexually violent offender populations as well as neuorpsychiatric and neurological conditions that lead to violance, and ultimately, to the courtroom. The book presents forensic neuroscience, neurocriminology, and neurolaw in a fundamental, coherent, and practical manner.
The distinguished author, John Matthew Fabian, a national expert in a forensic psychology and neuropsychology, presents a detailed and profound analysis of the neuroscience of both psychiatric and neurological disorders focusing on both brain structure and function and their relationship to violence. The author presents a comprehensive, precise, and meticulous overview of the neuroanatomy of violence in both juvenile and adult offendrs as well as with particular psychiatric and neurological disorders that he has encountered in his forensic practice as an expert witness in forensic neuropsychology and the law.
The book addresses neuropsychological and neuroscientific empirically based risk factors for violence and aggression while applying these findings to forensic mental health assessment and criminal legal proceedings.
Readers will also benefit from the inclusion of the application of brain dysfunction often found in certain offender populations and neuropsychiatric disorders, with an emphasis on how these impairments apply to violence and specific forensic legal questions asked of experts in the courtroom.
Perfect for professionals in forensic neuropsychology, forensic psychology, forensic psychiatry and neurocriminology and the law.
Forensic Neuroscience and Violence will also earn a worthy place in the libraries of researchers and academics in specialty topics such as violence and sexual violence risk assessment, criminal behavior and neurocriminology, and developmental psychopathology, professionals in social work, addiction and dual-diagnosis, and certainly criminal lawyers.
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
John Matthew Fabian, PSY.D., J.D., ABPP, is a board-certified forensic and clinical psychologist and fellowship-trained neuropsychologist. With more than 900 murder case evaluations and expert testimony in over 500 state and federal cases, his work bridges neuroscience, psychology and psychiatry, and the law. Dr. Fabian serves on the faculty of leading medical and forensic psychiatry training programs and is widely published in forensic neuroscience, neurocriminology, and the law.
