Brain and Crime. Handbook of Clinical Neurology Volume 197

Authors

Hanna Swaab Department of Clinical Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Education and Child Studies & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition LIBC & Leiden Institute for treatment and Expertise LUBEC, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands. Hanna Swaab is Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Neuropsychologist, full professor in Clinical Neurodevelopmental Sciences and Director of the outpatient clinic and Center of Expertise LUBEC at Leiden University. Her research concerns neurocognitive mechanisms in neurodevelopmental disorders. She was dean of the faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Leiden University in Leiden from 2013-2019 and is responsible for the post-master certified training programs for specialists in Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology in the Netherlands. Gerben Meynen Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, School of Law, Utrecht University, the Netherlands; Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Gerben Meynen, psychiatrist, received a PhD in Philosophy as well as in Medicine. He is professor of Forensic Psychiatry, Utrecht University, and professor of Ethics, in particular bioethics, VU University Amsterdam. His research interests include neurolaw and legal insanity. He is principal investigator of the project Law and Ethics of Neurotechnology in Criminal Justice of the research programme Vici (project number VI.C.201.067) which is financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).