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Post Neon Knight Thu 20 Feb - 23:57

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8013069/Criminals-smaller-BRAINS-handicap-explain-offenders-steal-violent.html Quoting:

Hardened criminals have an abnormal brain structure and display aggressive behaviour from early childhood, a major study suggests. Brain scans of almost 7,000 people aged 45 were analysed - a third had a history of antisocial behaviour ranging from physical fighting to truancy. People with a lifetime of convictions behind them had structurally smaller and thinner brains, some of which were in areas responsible for behaviour and emotion control.

Researchers also looked at their criminal records and questioned their teachers and nursery staff, identifying a group of 80 adults with a ‘persistent’ history of antisocial behaviour and physical violence, ranging from biting other children in nursery to domestic violence as an adult. Those who had only caused trouble as adolescents did not have significant brain differences compared to the general population, however.

Experts said the findings are a 'valuable' insight into what drives crime and how to prevent it happening.

The study led by University College London and published in The Lancet used data from a cohort of 672 people from New Zealand. The participants' level of antisocial behaviour had been measured every two years from the age of seven to 26 using self-reporting and reports from parents, carers and teachers. The participants were followed through adulthood, and 80 had what the researchers call 'life-course-persistent' antisocial behaviour. They had been convicted five times between the age of 26 and 28. A total of 151 had adolescent-only antisocial behaviour, and 441 had no history of persistent antisocial behaviour.

The researchers took MRI brain scans of participants at the age of 45 and compared the cortical surface area and cortical thickness of 360 different regions of the cortex. On average, across the entire brain, those who were antisocial into adulthood had a smaller surface area in 282 of 360 brain regions than people who had no history of antisocial behaviour. They also had thinner cortex in 11 of 360 regions. The areas effected have been previously linked to antisocial behaviour through their involvement in regulation of emotions, motivation and goal-driving behaviour.

Co-author Dr Terrie Moffitt said: 'I think what we've seen with these data is they are actually operating under some handicap at the level of the brain, so I think for me, this changes my conception of the "life course persistent" antisocial individuals now, to thinking of someone who is living life with some level of disability, and coping with that as part of their lifestyle.'

The authors say the study provides the first robust evidence to suggest that underlying brain differences are linked to antisocial behaviour. Study lead author Dr Christina Carlisi said those who commit crimes their whole life could benefit from 'more support throughout their lives'. She said: 'Our findings support the idea that, for the small proportion of individuals with life-course-persistent antisocial behaviour, there may be differences in their brain structure that make it difficult for them to develop social skills that prevent them from engaging in antisocial behaviour.'

Widespread differences in brain structure were not found for the adolescence-limited group compared with either the general population or the life-long antisocial group. The researchers said these findings have implications for the way the criminal justice system treats juvenile offenders. They said the majority of adolescent offenders have a short brush with crime but do not continue displaying antisocial behaviours into adulthood. This makes them 'really good candidates to reform and rehabilitate'. Dr Carlisi said: 'Most people who exhibit antisocial behaviour primarily do so only in adolescence, likely as a result of navigating socially difficult years, and these individuals do not display structural brain differences. It is also these individuals who are generally capable of reform and go on to become valuable members of society.'

Dr Moffitt said: 'Political approaches to juvenile offending often swing back and forth between punitive measures and approaches that give young offenders room to reform. Our findings support the need for different approaches for different offenders.'

Dr Moffitt cautioned against brain imaging as a screening tool to identify people who may become life-long criminals. This is because the understanding of brain structure differences are not robust enough to be applied on an individual level. As well as this, the team acknowledged the MRI scans were taken at the age of 45, therefore it is not clear if the structural brain differences were a cause of antisocial behaviour, or a result of a troubled life associated with crime. Those who commit life-long crimes may have smaller brains because they do drugs, smoke, suffer poor mental health or have a lower IQ - more research is needed to find this out . . .

Kevin McConway, emeritus professor of applied statistics, The Open University, said: 'These research findings are consistent with the hypothesis that life-course-persistent antisocial behaviour arises as a result of abnormal brain development. The study can’t tell us from what age those brain differences were there, because the participants’ brains were scanned only at age 45. One possibility is that the differences arose at some time long after early life. In that case they can’t be the cause of life-long anti-social behaviour, because they happened after the anti-social behaviours began. Another possibility is that the differences were there right from a very early age for some reason, perhaps genetic.'




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Post Neon Knight Fri 21 Feb - 0:03

The next stage of this research is obviously to scan the brains of a few hundred 10 year olds and then see if the ones with the same abnormal brain structures (if any) go on to become persistent offenders. From my own experience at school, it's fairly obvious who the future serial criminals are from a young age. They generally fight, bully, play truant and behave disruptively in class. It would be better for everyone if they were sent to special schools at the age of 10-11. The ones who don't improve a lot by 17 should probably be sterilised or kept in gated districts away from mainstream society.




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Post de Burgh Sun 6 Feb - 23:42

Neon Knight wrote:The next stage of this research is obviously to scan the brains of a few hundred 10 year olds and then see if the ones with the same abnormal brain structures (if any) go on to become persistent offenders. From my own experience at school, it's fairly obvious who the future serial criminals are from a young age. They generally fight, bully, play truant and behave disruptively in class. It would be better for everyone if they were sent to special schools at the age of 10-11. The ones who don't improve a lot by 17 should probably be sterilised or kept in gated districts away from mainstream society.

You should read this article; criminals/psychopathic/mentally disturbed individuals are inclined towards criminal activities due to having a very low g factor (low iq). Hence, I agree that criminally inclined individuals should be locked in a closed off facility from the general population (non-psychopathic population).

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2118547-real-life-psychopaths-actually-have-below-average-intelligence/




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