Neuroscience Has Been Used to Help Reduce People's Prison Sentences

question 89

Multiple Choice

Neuroscience has been used to help reduce people's prison sentences, as:

• A)Neurologists give good testimony about the way the brain does or does not control impulses
• B)Providing jurors with visual evidence (i.e., brain scans)helps them understand that there is an underlying problem with the person's brain
• C)Most jurors do not understand science, but due to social desirability agree with the evidence presented
• D)Neuroscience does not help reduce people's sentences - it is inadmissible in court

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