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Stories about: courts of law

New Factors to Consider in Defining Violence For thousands of years, philosophers and ethicists have been trying to determine precisely what is it that makes people violent. They have also attempted, some say unsuccessfully, to provide a definition of this concept, given the fact that legal decision affecting a man or woman's entire life are taken based on... 8 June 2010 04:13 GMT How fMRI Is Used in Courts of Law Over the past couple of years, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) has become one of the most impressive brain-imaging methods available. The technique has the ability to observe the changes that take place in the brain of a person in real-time. It can notice which portions of the cortex are active, as well ... 4 December 2009 19:01 GMT