1.
Reducing Crime and Violence: Experimental Evidence from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Liberia
Number of pages: 119
Posted: 18 Apr 2015
Last Revised: 25 Oct 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Exeter Business School - Department of Economics and Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital
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Reducing Crime and Violence: Experimental Evidence from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Liberia
Number of pages: 119
Posted: 18 Apr 2015
Last Revised: 25 Oct 2016
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Reducing Crime and Violence: Experimental Evidence on Adult Noncognitive Investments in Liberia
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7648
Number of pages: 108
Posted: 22 Apr 2016
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35
Reducing Crime and Violence: Experimental Evidence from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Liberia
NBER Working Paper No. w21204
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 26 May 2015
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7
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2,632
2.
Law and Neuroscience
LAW AND NEUROSCIENCE, (Aspen 2014, Forthcoming), Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper 14-12, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-19
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 19 Mar 2014
Last Revised: 27 May 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University - Department of Psychology and University of Minnesota Law School
Downloads
1,909
3.
The Psychology of Fraud: What Motivates Fraudsters to Commit Crime?
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 22 Apr 2015
Working Paper Series
Texas Woman's University, School of Management, Students
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1,844
4.
How Should Justice Policy Treat Young Offenders?
MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience, February 2017, Vanderbilt Law Research Paper No. 17-9, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-17, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-545
Number of pages: 5
Posted: 28 Feb 2017
Last Revised: 26 Apr 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University - Department of Psychology, University of Virginia - School of Law, US Court of Appeals - Fourth Circuit, University of California Hastings College of the Law, Second Judicial District Court Judge, State of Colorado, Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Washington University in St. Louis - Department of Neurology, Yale University - Department of Psychology, Columbia University - Law School, Temple University - Department of Psychology, New York University School of Law and Stanford University - Psychology
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1,203
5.
The Insanity Defense: Nine Myths that Will Not Go Away
The Insanity Defense: Multidisciplinary Views on Its History, Trends, and Controversies (Mark D. White, Editor; Praeger, 2016 Forthcoming), NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper 2715577
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 16 Jan 2016
Accepted Paper Series
New York Law School
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1,144
6.
Experts, Psychology, Credibility, and Rape: The Rape Trauma Syndrome Issue and Its Implications for Expert Psychological Testimony
69 Minnesota Law Review 395 (1985)
Number of pages: 76
Posted: 25 Mar 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Arizona College of Law
Downloads
1,048
7.
Neuroethics and Criminal Responsibility – A Criminal Law Comment on Neil Levy's Consciousness and Moral Responsibility
Anatomy of Crime - Journal of Law and Crime Sciences, 3, 2016, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 6
Posted: 14 Jun 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of Lisbon - School of Law
Downloads
1,041
8.
Law and Neuroscience: Recommendations Submitted to the President's Bioethics Commission
Journal of Law and Biosciences, vol 1, pp 224-236 (2014)
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 31 Aug 2014
Last Revised: 27 Jul 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Virginia - School of Law, Yale University - Department of Psychology, US Court of Appeals - Fourth Circuit, University of California Hastings College of the Law, Second Judicial District Court Judge, State of Colorado, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Washington University in St. Louis - Department of Neurology, Yale University - Department of Psychology, Columbia University - Law School, Temple University - Department of Psychology, New York University School of Law, Stanford University - Psychology and Yale Law School
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906
9.
Brain Science and the Theory of Juvenile Mens Rea
94 North Carolina Law Review 539 (2016)
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 08 May 2015
Last Revised: 06 Jun 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of Alabama - School of Law
Downloads
861
10.
Reforming Mental Health Law to Protect Public Safety and Help the Severely Mentally Ill
Howard Law Journal, 2015, Vol. 58 No. 3, pp. 715-78, U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-05
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 15 Feb 2015
Last Revised: 17 Dec 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Independence Institute and College of Western Idaho
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809
11.
The Failure of Mitigation?
Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 65, 2014, UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2446950
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 08 Jun 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School (Fair Punishment Project, a joint initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute & Criminal Justice Institute), Independent and DePaul University College of Law
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769
12.
Trauma-Informed Approaches to Law: Why Restorative Justice Must Understand Trauma and Psychological Coping
(Fall 2013) The Dalhousie Law Journal 501.
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 16 Apr 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Western Ontario - Faculty of Law and University of Toronto - Department of Psychiatry
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749
13.
Police Racial Violence: Lessons from Social Psychology
Fordham Law Review, 2015, Forthcoming, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2015-72
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 09 Aug 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Irvine School of Law
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698
14.
Neuroscientists in Court
14 Nature Reviews Neuroscience 730 (2013), Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 14-17
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 07 May 2014
Last Revised: 15 May 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, Stanford University - Psychology, University of California Hastings College of the Law and Washington University in St. Louis - Department of Neurology
Downloads
655
15.
Emotion, Proof and Prejudice: The Cognitive Science of Gruesome Photos and Victim Impact Statements
46 Arizona State Law Journal 1003 (2014)
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 29 Mar 2014
Last Revised: 06 Aug 2015
Accepted Paper Series
DePaul University - College of Law and Arizona State University
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649
16.
Law and Neuroscience
33 THE JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE 17624 (2013), Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 14-18
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 07 May 2014
Last Revised: 15 May 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University - Department of Psychology
Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania and Stanford Law School
Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania and Stanford Law School
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644
17.
Time-In-Cell: The ASCA-Liman 2014 National Survey of Administrative Segregation in Prison
Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 552
Number of pages: 155
Posted: 09 Sep 2015
Last Revised: 10 Nov 2015
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Yale University, Law School, Students, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Yale University, Law School, Students, Yale University, Law School, Students, Yale Law School and Yale University - Law School
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643
18.
California Prison Downsizing and Its Impact on Local Criminal Justice Systems
Harvard Law & Policy Review, Vol. 8, 2014
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 24 Jun 2014
Last Revised: 30 Jun 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University
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617
19.
Minds, Brains, and Law: The Conceptual Foundations of Law and Neuroscience
Minds, Brains, and Law: The Conceptual Foundations of Law and Neuroscience (Oxford University Press, 2013), Forthcoming, U of Alabama Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2330892
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 27 Sep 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Alabama School of Law and Rutgers University School of Law, Camden
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596
20.
Unspringing the Witness Memory and Demeanor Trap: What Every Judge and Juror Needs to Know About Cognitive Psychology and Witness Credibility
American University Law Review, 2015
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 22 Mar 2015
Accepted Paper Series
U.S. District Court (Northern District of Iowa)
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569
21.
Neuroscience, Free Will, and Criminal Responsibility
In Walter Glannon, ed., Free Will and the Brain: Neuroscientific, Philosophical, and Legal Perspectives (Cambridge 2015)., U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 15-35
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 09 Dec 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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556
22.
Brain Development, Social Context and Justice Policy
Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, Forthcoming, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-578
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 06 Feb 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Columbia University - Law School, Temple University and Temple University - Department of Psychology
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507
23.
Free Will as a Matter of Law
Philosophical Foundations of Law and Neuroscience, (Michael Pardo & Dennis Patterson eds., 2016), Oxford University Press
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 16 Sep 2015
Last Revised: 11 Apr 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Brooklyn Law School
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491
24.
Remorse and Demeanor in the Courtroom: Cognitive Science and the Evaluation of Contrition
Hunter, Roberts, Young, Dixon, The Integrity of the Criminal Process (2016 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 04 Dec 2013
Last Revised: 19 May 2016
Accepted Paper Series
DePaul University - College of Law
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484
25.
Understanding and Predicting Cyberstalking in Social Media: Integrating Theoretical Perspectives on Shame, Neutralization, Self-Control, Rational Choice, and Social Learning
Proceedings of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems Theory Development Workshop at the 2013 International Conference on Systems Sciences (ICIS 2013), Milan, Italy, December 15
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 23 Nov 2014
Last Revised: 29 Dec 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business, City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) - Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) - Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) - Department of Information Systems and University of Oulu
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477
26.
Contaminated Confessions Revisited
Virginia Law Review, Vol. 101, 2015 Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2014-52
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 24 Aug 2014
Last Revised: 20 Mar 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Duke University School of Law
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456
27.
Psychological Perspectives: Cognition and Decision Making
Chapter Three in Examining Wrongful Convictions: Stepping Back, Moving Forward, Carolina Academic Press, 2014 Forthcoming
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 20 May 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Wisconsin Law School and Michigan State University - College of Law
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435
28.
Law and Neuroscience
International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences (2nd Edition, 2015), Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 15-24
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 18 Sep 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences and Court of Federal Claims - Office of Special Masters
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432
29.
Mental Health and False Confessions
in Elizabeth Kelley, ed., Representing People With Mental Disabilities (2018 Forthcoming), Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2017-16
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 30 Aug 2017
Last Revised: 02 Oct 2017
Accepted Paper Series
University of Nevada, Reno, University of San Francisco - School of Law and University of Nevada, Reno
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414
30.
What the Brain Saw: The Case of Trayvon Martin and the Need for Eyewitness Identification Reform
Denver University Law Review, Vol. 90:2, 2012
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 27 Apr 2015
Last Revised: 02 Apr 2019
Accepted Paper Series
West Virginia University - College of Law
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413
31.
The True Legacy of Atkins and Roper: The Unreliability Principle, Mentally Ill Defendants, and the Death Penalty's Unraveling
William & Mary Bill of Rights, Vol. 23, (2014 Forthcoming), University of Miami Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-5
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 03 Dec 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Miami School of Law
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404
32.
Kontribusi Psikologi Dalam Penegakan Hukum Di Indonesia (The Contribution of Psychology to Law Enforcement in Indonesia)
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 13 Apr 2015
Working Paper Series
State Islamic University of Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau
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393
33.
Mental Illness in Prison: Inmate Rehabilitation & Correctional Officers in Crisis
Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 14, p. 227, 2009
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 23 Jul 2010
Last Revised: 28 Feb 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Texas Southern University - Thurgood Marshall School of Law
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389
34.
Solitary Confinement As a Prison Health Issue
(2014). Pp27-35 in: Who Guide to Prisons and Health. Enggist, S., Moller, L., Galea, G. And Udesen, C. (Eds). Copenhagen: World Health Organization.
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 22 Nov 2017
Accepted Paper Series
SolitaryConfinement.org
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387
35.
Law and Neuroscience: Progress, Promise, and Pitfalls
in The Cognitive Neurosciences, 6th Edition (Gazzaniga, Mangun, and Poeppel, eds) (MIT Press, 2019, Forthcoming)
, Vanderbilt Law Research Paper 18- 32
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 31 May 2018
Last Revised: 09 Jul 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences and Stanford University - Psychology
Downloads
385
36.
Decoding Guilty Minds
Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 71, 2018, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2017-59, Vanderbilt Law Research Paper No. 18-10
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 14 Nov 2017
Last Revised: 16 Feb 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Court of Federal Claims - Office of Special Masters, University of Minnesota Law School, University of Virginia - School of Law, Second Judicial District Court Judge, State of Colorado, Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences and University of California, Irvine School of Law
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366
37.
China's Unhappy Police
Asian Survey, Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 225-42, 2016
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 11 Feb 2015
Last Revised: 06 May 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Clark University and University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
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360
38.
What Exposes African Americans to Police Violence?
51 Harvard Civil Rights- Civil Liberties Law Review 159 (2016), UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-43
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 12 Oct 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law and Pasadena City College
Downloads
354
39.
Gun Control, Mental Illness, and Black Trans and Lesbian Survival
Southwestern Law Review, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 855-899, 2013 , Northeastern University School of Law Research Paper No. 173-2014
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 04 Jan 2014
Last Revised: 24 Jan 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Northeastern University - School of Law
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347
40.
Criminal Law and Common Sense: An Essay on the Perils and Promise of Neuroscience
Marquette Law Review, Vol. 99, P. 39, 2015, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 15-38
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 19 Dec 2015
Last Revised: 22 Apr 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Downloads
342
41.
The Role of the Social Sciences in Preventing Wrongful Convictions
American Criminal Law Review, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 1271-87, 2005
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 28 May 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Washington - School of Law
Downloads
337
42.
Criminal Responsibility and Psychopathy: Do Psychopaths Have a Right to Excuse?
Handbook on Psychopathy and Law (Oxford Series on Neuroscience, Law, and Philosophy) Kent A. Kiehl & Walter P. Sinnott-Armstrong, eds., New York: Oxford University Press (2013), University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-16
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 17 Dec 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Missouri School of Law
Downloads
336
43.
What Not to Do When Your Roommate Is Murdered in Italy: Amanda Knox, Her 'Strange' Behavior, and the Italian Legal System
Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, Vol. 41, No. 1-78, 2017, Emory Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 81
Posted: 21 Nov 2017
Last Revised: 15 Oct 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Emory University School of Law
Downloads
325
44.
The Place for Neuroscience in Criminal Law
PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LAW AND NEUROSCIENCE. New York: Oxford University Press 69-83 (Dennis Patterson & Michael Pardo, eds. 2016) , Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2806641
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 18 Jul 2016
Last Revised: 18 Aug 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Fordham University School of Law
Downloads
324
45.
A New Synthesis for Law and Emotions: Insights from the Behavioral Sciences
47 Arizona State Law Journal 1239 (2015)
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 21 Apr 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of Central Florida
Downloads
322
46.
'Have You Seen Dignity?': The Story of the Development of Therapeutic Jurisprudence
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 07 Apr 2017
Working Paper Series
New York Law School
Downloads
312
47.
Keeping Up with Neurolaw: What to Know and Where to Look
50 Court Rev. 104 (2014), Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-49
Number of pages: 3
Posted: 30 Oct 2014
Last Revised: 28 Apr 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Minnesota Law School
Downloads
311
48.
The Effect of Mental Illness Under US Criminal Law
Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, Vol. 65, P. 229, 2014, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 13-25
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 22 Oct 2013
Last Revised: 31 Jan 2015
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Downloads
309
49.
Tough on Crime or Tough Luck for the Incarcerated? Exploring the Adverse Psychological Impacts of Mandatory Minimum Sentencing and Pushing for Action
Law & Psychology Review, Vol. 39, p. 253 (2015)
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 31 Aug 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Alabama - School of Law
Downloads
307
50.
Deterring Corruption: Beyond Rational Choice Theory
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 08 Nov 2014
Last Revised: 25 Nov 2014
Working Paper Series
Arnold & Porter, LLP
Downloads
295
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