Neuroscience and Criminal Behavior: Exploring Brain’s Role

Neuroscience and Criminal Behavior: Exploring Brain’s Role

Modern neuroscience has made significant and sometimes dramatic gains into how the brain and central nervous system are implicated in a range of problematic, criminal, and addictive behaviors. Indeed, the growth of modern neuroscientific findings can only be described as explosive, with new discoveries being published almost daily. These findings are often produced by highly advanced technologies—technologies that, at a broad level, allow scientists to view the brain in action and under experimental conditions. This same technology also now allows scientists to directly measure brain cell activity and the strength and integrity of connections between brain cells. Never before in human history have scientists had these tools at…