Larry_Oldtimer
12-22-2004, 10:42 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/if/4102371.stm
Excerpts: Connections between crime and biological make-up are increasingly becoming a hot topic for discussion. Two personal and opposing accounts argue the case for and against . . .
Until recently it was thought that the causes of crime lay just in social factors like poverty and unemployment.
Yet repeat offending criminal behaviour is a clinical disorder, with brain impairments playing a key role.
New research is now showing that genetic and biological factors play an equal, if not greater, role than social factors in crime causation . . .
More dramatically, we now know that the brains of criminals are physically different from non-criminals, showing an 11% reduction in the volume of grey matter (neurons) in the prefrontal cortex. (more)
Excerpts: Connections between crime and biological make-up are increasingly becoming a hot topic for discussion. Two personal and opposing accounts argue the case for and against . . .
Until recently it was thought that the causes of crime lay just in social factors like poverty and unemployment.
Yet repeat offending criminal behaviour is a clinical disorder, with brain impairments playing a key role.
New research is now showing that genetic and biological factors play an equal, if not greater, role than social factors in crime causation . . .
More dramatically, we now know that the brains of criminals are physically different from non-criminals, showing an 11% reduction in the volume of grey matter (neurons) in the prefrontal cortex. (more)