Conviction: the making and unmaking of the violent brain: by Oliver Rollins, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2021, Pp.225, $25.00 (paper), ISBN: 9781503627895.

Rollins reveals neuroscientists' promises to be more branding than substance, a defensive crouch aimed at heading off controversy rather than tackling the immensely complicated interactions between the biological and the social. This conviction has solidified into what Rollins deems the "violent brain model" - an assumption that the brain is locus of violence and criminality. Part I unpacks the research program, specifically the research assumptions and conventions by which neuroscientists squeeze the complexity of crime and violence into the violent brain model. [Extracted from the article]