Medical Advancement and Predatory Criminals

MEDICAL ADVANCEMENT AND PREDATORY CRIMINALS

Anthropological research data has shown the violence is an inherent conduct among the primate species (Walker , 2001 . In society , criminal violence is a common occurrence and legislators have suggested that the behavior of criminals be analyzed in to identify any psychological patterns that are consistent among these particular types of individuals . In the past few decades , neurobiologists have proposed that an individual 's condition , which encompasses empathy , morality and free will , is holistically influenced by the frequency of stimulation and assembly of the neurons of an

individual . Such notion is contradictory to the concept of Cartesian dualism , which states that the brain and the mind are two independent entities that coordinate with each other . To date , the accumulation of research reports from the field of neuroscience is gradually affecting the concepts and effectivity of the justice system because of the shifting in the concept of human behavior and response to different stimuli . Neuroscience has influenced our current understanding of the multiple factors that govern violent behavior among criminals

The 19th century classic report of Phineas Gage regarding the anti-social behavior that emerged after massive damage of the prefrontal cortex of his brain from a railroad accident is now considered as the birth of the field of forensic neurology (Harlow , 1848 . Today computerized imaging of his fractured skull has shown that the autonomic and social nerve systems are the specific damages that were affected thus resulting in a together with...