If in the near future brain scanning is believed to be affective enough to use within legal matters it could be a great advancement that would be of great use. Although this new technology would be of great help in telling whether people were guilty of crimes and such it would bring with it negative quality's as well. The human mind is a very complex and difficult thing to understand and people have negative thoughts about something or someone almost everyday that are never acted upon or followed through with. In scanning someones brain it seems that picking between the real and momentary upset thoughts would be almost impossible to declare the difference which could cause several false accusations about innocence people that didn't mean any harm but just had bad thoughts briefly enter their brain. If most of the legal system was based on such a technology it would almost certainly be of erroneous qualities.
Some of the advantages of such a technology would be the use of it within court rooms and replacing a poly gram test that can be manipulated and may not give reliable results. If this new technology was of decent reliability it could be used to declare the truth of someones statement on the witness stand or rather it could tell if a person on trial for a crime was innocence or guilty. If anything such a technology could manipulate suspects into telling the truth because of them thinking the jury will know it no matter what, causing suspects to confess rather then trying to lie. As it is seen such a technology has its advantages as well as disadvantages, but if used in the proper way within the proper boundaries it could be of great importance within the technology world.
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