Changing biology to change behavior, new research indicates direct brain stimulation with low electric current can decrease intent towards violence, but how much do we really know about this method?
If you commit a crime while involuntarily intoxicated through legally prescribed drugs, can you and should you be held criminally responsible for your actions? In relevant cases, these are the ...
Some researchers have suggested that serial murder could, in fact, be a result of an addiction to killing, with similarities to behaviors seen in substance addiction.
Biological and neurological explanations for criminal behaviour raise key questions for not only how the criminal justice system can incorporate the science of neurocriminology, but if they do, whether criminal ...
The Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971 enabled the discovery of the Lucifer Effect; when ordinary good people become perpetrators of evil, but at what cost?
New research examining the psychopathic brain and links to violence refocuses attention from lack of emotion to decision-making and reward networks.
New research from Iowa State University is one of the first studies to explore offenders who display very real thoughts of murder.
Juvenile crime, gangs and anti-social behaviour by youngsters has been debated almost daily with the age of criminal responsibility being at the center.
In a number of studies carried out with prison inmates, the rate of head injury has been seen up to seven to eight times higher than the rates found in ...
Should people with brain disorders receive different punishment for crimes? Australian law may be about to reshape the way we deal with criminals.
