Implementation of Brain Stimulation in Criminal Justice

Public project summary

As neurotechnology rapidly advances, the criminal justice system faces unprecedented opportunities and challenges in offender rehabilitation. This research explores how closed-loop brain devices (CBDs) and similar brain-stimulating technologies could transform approaches to reducing offender recidivism (when prisoners return) while simultaneously examining the associated human rights implications. Recognizing the current criminal justice system’s shortfalls in successfully reducing recidivism rates in rehabilitation programs, the study proposes developing implementation criteria for neurotechnologies that simultaneously address behavioral modification and promote fundamental human and neurological rights. Through a hybrid research approach combining quantitative analysis of existing recidivism reduction programs and qualitative investigation of existing and emerging human rights frameworks through ethics, this research seeks to answer a critical question: How can the criminal justice system integrate successful neurorehabilitation technologies while ensuring compliance with established human rights and emerging neurorights principles?