Criminal_Activity_In_The_Brain

Criminal Activity In The Brain Criminal Activity and the Brains Role When it comes to aggression, the brain is said to be directly connected to psychological abnormalities. When there is damage to the frontal lobe of the brain, the chances of the individual having social and behavioral problems are higher. The traits and characteristics that the individual has as a result of these abnormalities contribute to antisocial behavior and aggression. The damage that is done to the brain reduces the individual’s autonomic arousal ability, which decreases the individual’s level of fear. As a result, the individual seems to fear nothing and has a higher possibility of becoming a violent offender. If an individual fears nothing, then they believe that they can do anything, because it is the fear of being punished that keeps most people from committing crimes. If an individual has no fear they have no need or desire to refrain from being violent. The individual’s personality and emotional deficits are controlled by the right frontal cortex and when this area is damaged or altered, the individual’s behavior ids different from those individuals that do not have damage to the brain. If an individual is abused as a child, they tend to have reduced right hemisphere brain, individual, behavior, violent, result, damage, frontal, antisocial, ability, normal, functioning, emotions, criminal, causes, brains, because, aggressive, right, lobe, individual’s, however, being, act, abnormalities, without, reduced, offender, isn’t, fear, decisions, control, children, altered, activity, wrong, within