'Screen and intervene': governing risky brains

TY - JOUR

T1 - 'Screen and intervene': governing risky brains

AU - Rose, Nikolas

PY - 2010/2

Y1 - 2010/2

N2 - This article argues that a new diagram is emerging in the criminal justice system as it encounters developments in the neurosciences. This does not take the form that concerns many 'neuroethicists' - it does not entail a challenge to doctrines of free will and the notion of the autonomous legal subject - but is developing around the themes of susceptibility, risk, pre-emption and precaution. I term this diagram 'screen and intervene' and in this article I attempt to trace out this new configuration and consider some of the consequences.

AB - This article argues that a new diagram is emerging in the criminal justice system as it encounters developments in the neurosciences. This does not take the form that concerns many 'neuroethicists' - it does not entail a challenge to doctrines of free will and the notion of the autonomous legal subject - but is developing around the themes of susceptibility, risk, pre-emption and precaution. I term this diagram 'screen and intervene' and in this article I attempt to trace out this new configuration and consider some of the consequences.

U2 - 10.1177/0952695109352415

DO - 10.1177/0952695109352415

M3 - Article

VL - 23

SP - 79

EP - 105

JO - HISTORY OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES

JF - HISTORY OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES

IS - 1

ER -