Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Author "Jones, Owen D."
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Jones, Owen D. (Law and Contemporary Problems, 2006)This Article provides an introduction to some of the key issues at the intersection of behavioral genetics and crime. It provides, among other things, an overview of the emerging points of consensus, scientifically, on ...
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Jones, Owen D.; Buckholtz, Joshua W.; Schall, Jeffrey D.; Marois, Rene (Stanford Technology Law Review, 2009)It has become increasingly common for brain images to be proffered as evidence in criminal and civil litigation. This Article - the collaborative product of scholars in law and neuroscience - provides three things. First, ...
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Jones, Owen D.; Shen, Francis X. (Mercer Law Review, 2011)This contribution to the Brain Sciences in the Courtroom Symposium identifies and discusses issues important to admissibility determinations when courts confront brain-scan evidence. Through the vehicle of the landmark ...
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Jones, Owen D.; Ginther, Matthew R.; Shen, Francis X.; Bonnie, Richard J.; Hoffman, Morris B.; Simons, Kenneth W. (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2018)A central tenet of Anglo-American penal law is that in order for an actor to be found criminally liable, a proscribed act must be accompanied by a guilty mind. While it is easy to understand the importance of this principle ...
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Jones, Owen D.; Montague, Read; Yaffe, Gideon (University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2020)Mental states matter. Consequently, we and colleagues designed and executed a brain-imaging experiment attempting to detect-for the first time-differences between mental states relevant to criminal law. Imagine you've just ...
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Jones, Owen D. (University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2020)Mental states matter. Consequently, we and colleagues designed and executed a brain-imaging experiment attempting to detect-for the first time-differences between mental states relevant to criminal law. Imagine you've just ...
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Jones, Owen D.; O'Connor, Erin O'Hara, 1965-; Stake, Jeffrey Evans, 1953- (Supreme Court Economic Review, 2011)The article first compares economics and behavioral biology, examining the assumptions, core concepts, methodological tenets, and emphases of the two fields. Building on this, the article then compares the applied ...
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Jones, Owen D.; O'Connor, Erin O'Hara; Stake, Jeffrey Evans (Supreme Court Economic Review, 2011)The article first compares economics and behavioral biology, examining the assumptions, core concepts, methodological tenets, and emphases of the two fields. Building on this, the article then compares the applied ...
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Jones, Owen D.; Brosnan, Sarah F.; Lambeth, Susan P.; Mareno, Mary Catherine; Richardson, Amanda S.; Schapiro, Steven (Current Biology, 2007)Human behavior is not always consistent with standard rational choice predictions. The much-investigated variety of apparent deviations from rational choice predictions provides a promising arena for the merger of economics ...
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Jones, Owen D.; Brosnan, Sarah F.; Gardner, Molly; Lambeth, Susan P.; Schapiro, Steven J. (Evolution and Human Behavior, 2012)The endowment effect is the seemingly irrationally tendency to immediately value a possessed item more than the opportunity to acquire the identical item when one does not already possess it. The phenomenon has broad legal ...
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Jones, Owen D. (Jurimetrics, 2001)The place of the rational actor model in the analysis of individual and social behavior relevant to law remains unresolved. In recent years, scholars have sought frameworks to explain: a) disjunctions between seemingly ...
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Jones, Owen D. (North Carolina Law Review, 1997)For contemporary biologists, behavior - like physical form - evolves. Although evolutionary processes do not dictate behavior in any inflexible sense, they nonetheless contribute significantly to the prevalence of various ...
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Jones, Owen D.; Kurzban, Robert (University of Chicago Law Review, 2010)Recent work reveals, contrary to wide-spread assumptions, remarkably high levels of agreement about how to rank order, by blameworthiness, wrongs that involve physical harms, takings of property, or deception in exchanges. ...
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Jones, Owen D.; Goldsmith, Timothy H. (Columbia Law Review, 2005)Society uses law to encourage people to behave differently than they would behave in the absence of law. This fundamental purpose makes law highly dependent on sound understandings of the multiple causes of human behavior. ...
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Jones, Owen D. (Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, 1997)This Article explores ways in which social science perspectives on behavior can be combined with life science perspectives on behavior to the advantage of law. It emphasizes both values of and techniques for integration, ...
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Jones, Owen D.; Schall, Jeffrey D.; Shen, Francis X. (Law and Neuroscience, 2014)This provides the Summary Table of Contents and Chapter 1 of our coursebook “Law and Neuroscience” (forthcoming April 2014, from Aspen Publishing). Designed for use in both law schools and beyond, the book provides ...
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Jones, Owen D. (Hastings Women's Law Journal, 2000)This Article serves as a sequel to a previous Article: Sex, Culture, and the Biology of Rape: Toward Explanation and Prevention, 87 Cal. L. Rev. 827 (1999). Part I briefly considers the threshold question: why consider the ...
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Jones, Owen D.; Brosnan, Sarah F. (William & Mary Law Review, 2008)Recent work at the intersection of law and behavioral biology has suggested numerous contexts in which legal thinking could benefit by integrating knowledge from behavioral biology. In one of those contexts, behavioral ...
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Jones, Owen D. (2004)This essay discusses several issues at the intersection of law and brain science. If focuses principally on ways in which an improved understanding of how evolutionary processes affect brain function and human behavior may ...
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Jones, Owen D.; Mobbs, Dean; Lau, Hakwan C.; Frith, Christopher D. (PLoS Biology, 2007)This article addresses new developments in neuroscience, and their implications for law. It explores, for example, the relationships between brain injury and violence, as well as the connections between mental disorders ...