biological explainations of offending : neural

Question 1

who did research into the prefrontal cortex?

Answer 1

raine

Question 2

what was raines procedure and findings?

Answer 2

• studied antisocial personality disorder brains (APD)
• reduced activity in the prefrontal cortex
• prefrontal cortex regulates emotional behaviour
• found reduced grey matter (11% reduction) in the prefrontal cortex for those with ADP

Question 3

who conducted research into mirror neurons?

Answer 3

keyser

Question 4

what did keyser find about offenders?

Answer 4

when offenders ar asked to empathise then it in activated
- neural switch that can be turned on and off

Question 5

strength of neural (link)

Answer 5

research supports link between criminality and frontal lobe
- kandel and freed
- found link between prefrontal cortex and ADP after frontal lobe damage
- show impulsive behaviour, emotional instability and can’t learn form mistakes

Question 6

limitation of neural (link is more complex)

Answer 6

farmington studied males with ADP who scored high on psychopathy
- experienced risk factors in childhood causing ADP and had some neural differences