Crimes and Neuroimaging: Essay Refuting the Biological Factors of Criminal Minds

Authors: Alahmari AF*

DOI: 10.23880/ijfsc-16000360

Volume 9, Issue 1

Abstract

As a popular−neuroscience books reader, it comes to my attention the amount of books in neuroscience that all of them claim that criminals do crimes not by their will, but due to a morphological, functional, pathological change in the brain and other biological factors. All these books use PET scans to show that criminals have a non-functional prefrontal cortex, atrophied brain tissue on MRI scan; genes in their DNA make them commit crimes, etc. Basically, all these books claim that it is not the criminals’ mistake, but it is their brains’ fault! This paper will detail these books and provide arguments responding to their claims. Then the reader of this paper will realize that these issues are politically driven and it has nothing to do with science. The reader as well, will entail (not infer) with certainty, that the brain is not more than a small factor that might change a person behavior, but it will not make someone commits crimes.

Keywords: Crimes; Mind; Neuro-Criminology; Biological Roots; Neuroimaging; DNA

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