Alimardani Armin
School of Law, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
Front Psychol. 2023 Aug 22;14:1228354. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1228354. eCollection 2023.
While neuroscience has been used in Australian courts for the past 40 years, no systematic empirical study has been conducted into how neuroscientific evidence is used in courts. This study provides a systematic review on how neuroscientific evidence is considered in sentencing decisions of New South Wales criminal courts. A comprehensive and systematic search was conducted on three databases. From this search, 331 relevant sentencing decisions before 2016 that discussed neuroscientific evidence were examined. The findings of this study suggest that neuroscientific evidence appeared to contribute to sentencing decisions in less than half of the cases examined; and in the majority of these, it supported a more lenient sentence.
在过去40年里，神经科学已在澳大利亚法庭被使用，但尚未对神经科学证据在法庭上的使用情况进行过系统的实证研究。本研究对新南威尔士刑事法庭量刑决定中如何考虑神经科学证据进行了系统综述。对三个数据库进行了全面系统的检索。通过这次检索，审查了2016年之前331个讨论神经科学证据的相关量刑决定。本研究结果表明，在所审查的案件中，神经科学证据似乎在不到一半的案件中对量刑决定有影响；而且在大多数此类案件中，它支持更宽松的判决。
