treat violent behaviour with mandatory interv = unethical

• what do neuroscientists link criminal behaviour to?

  dysfunctional brain functioning
• what do many see crime as?

  response to social context
• even if there is neurological basis to criminal behaviour, what does this not mean?

  that is is ethical to treat with neurological interventions
• what happens if courts start implementing mandatory neurological interventions?

  denial of indivs freedom
• what choice may a court offer the criminal?

  prison or course of medicated treatment
• what does the court offering a choice breach?

  ethical issue of implicit coercion as criminal is left with little choice
• what may happen if neuroscientists are able to predict what determines criminal behaviour?

  considered ethical to treat children who show signs of becoming criminal in future
• what does the possible use of neuro testing & interventions raise?

  issue of freewill & whether or not it is right to say criminals are not responsible for their behaviour