Financed by: The Danish Council for Independent Research, Humanities
Granted to: Professor Jesper Ryberg
Grant: 5,786,224 kr.

The project deals with ethical issues, rising in connection with the use of Neuroscientific knowledge and technology within the court system. Overall the project focus on four problem areas, for which a number of central ethical challenges are connected: 1) Criminal Procedure and Neuroethics (deals with the ethical questions concerning use of bias and lie detection and improvement of memory of witnesses as well as defendants in criminal cases), 2) Criminal defense and Neuro Science (deals with Neuroscientific implications for basic criminal ethic rationales and for attribution of responsibility for criminals. 3) Dangerous criminals and Neuro Technological rehabilitation (deals with ethical problems in association with both mandatory and voluntary use of pharmacological treatment to rectify spontaneous violent behavior, and thereby obtain a criminal preventive effect) 4) Prognostic Neuroscience and ethics (deals among other things with the more general ethical problems, that prognostic use of Neuroscience within the court system cause).

Project Participants:
Professor: Jesper Ryberg
Associate Professor: Thomas Søbirk Petersen
Associate Professor: Jakob V. H. Holterman, KU
Postdoc: Frej Klem Thomsen
PhD-Student: Fatima Sabir