The MacArthur Foundation's phase II grant for research into law and neuroscience has now been officially announced. Owen Jones at Vanderbilt will lead the $4.85 million grant. As before, the project will focus on criminal justice, but this time it will focus on these three areas (according to a press release):
Mental States: Assessing probable mental states of defendants and witnesses, such as the defendant’s most likely state of mind when he committed a past bad act.
Capacity: Assessing a defendant’s capacity for self-regulating his behavior or self-control.
Evidence: Assessing whether, and if so how, various kinds of neuroscientific evidence should be admitted and evaluated in individual cases.
For more information, see the full press release, along with the project's new website.
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