David Birks is a Departmental Lecturer in Political Theory at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and an Early Career Research Fellow at the Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH), University of Oxford. He was previously a Junior Research Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Experimental Medicine, University of Kiel. His research focuses on issues such as paternalism, perfectionism, punishment, and public reason.Thomas Douglas is a Senior Research Fellow in the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Practical Ethics.

• Part One: Setting the Scene 1: Christopher Chew, Thomas Douglas, and Nadira Faber: Biological Interventions for Crime Prevention 2: Lisa Forsberg: Crime-Preventing Neurointerventions and the Law: Learning from Anti-Libidinal Interventions 3: Matt Matravers: The Importance of Context in Thinking About Crime Preventing Neurointerventions 4: Jonathan Pugh: Coercion and the Neurocorrective Offer Part Two: Defending CPNs and Diffusing Objections 5: Jeff McMahan: Moral Liability to Crime-Preventing Neurointervention 6: Peter Vallentyne: Neurointerventions, Self-Ownership, and Enforcement Rights 7: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen: The Self-Ownership Trilemma, Extended Minds, and Neurointerventions 8: Emma Bullock: Moral Paternalism and Neurointerventions 9: Jesper Ryberg: Neuroscientific Treatment of Criminals and Penal Theory 10: Hallie Liberto: Chemical Castration and the Violation of Sexual Rights 11: Thomas Douglas: Neural and Environmental Modulation of Motivation: What's the Moral Difference? 12: John McMillan: Containing Violence and Controlling Desire 13: Mathew Clayton and Andres Moles: Neurointerventions, Morality and Children Part Three: Against CPNs 14: Christopher Bennett: Intrusive Intervention and Opacity Respect 15: Emily McTernan: Those Who Forget the Past: An Ethical Challenge from the History of Treating Deviance 16: Jan Christoph Bublitz: 'The Soul Is the Prison of the Body': Mandatory Moral Enhancement, Punishment and Rights Against Neuro-Rehabilitation 17: Elizabeth Shaw: Against the Mandatory Use of Neurointerventions in Criminal Sentencing 18: Zofia Stemplowska: Should Coercive Neurointerventions Target the Victims of Wrongdoing? 19: David Birks: Can Neurointerventions Communicate Censure? (And so what if they can t?)

The nineteen essays in this book comprehensively cover and effectively advance the moral debate over the appropriate use of CPNs...the essays in the book are original, they also serve as a good entry point into a moral issue that has arguably received inadequate attention.