The Return of Lombroso? Ethical Aspects of (Visions of) Preventive Forensic Screening

Munthe, Christian; Radovic, Susanna

s novel A Philosophical Investigation from 1992 (Kerr, 1992) , where the neurocriminological version of the new Lombrosian vision is envisaged. 15. Also a negative detection result may need to be followed up by some intervention, e.g. counselling in order to make I understand the significance of the result. In the Lombrosian case, this is especially important in light of the risk that a perception of oneself having an increased forensic risk may make a person more prone to actual criminal behaviour. 16. Note that this use of the notion 'therapeutic gap', well established in bioethics, is different from one sometimes used to denote compliance or adherence to treatment recommendations (Feely, 1999) . 17. Note that this version of a Lombrosian programme would not fit within the type of liberal and individually emancipating uses for selecting future offspring sketched in, e.g., Buchanan et al., (2000) or Agar, (2004) . 18. In this case, it is of extra importance to remind about the link between the assessment of intervention strategies and the quality of the detection method. The more that the latter implies false positives, the less more severely restricting or excluding choices of P will appear possible to justify.