The association between neurology and crime has its origins in post‐mortem studies of the brains of criminal individuals and subsequent examinations of persons who became markedly antisocial and violent following traumatic injury to specific brain regions. Recently, the association between brain dysfunction and antisocial behaviors has been extended by more advanced neuroscience techniques such as brain imaging and neuropsychology. Convergent findings have found brain injury, reductions in brain volume, deficits in brain functioning, intellectual impairments, and limitations in executive capabilities to be associated with various forms of criminal, aggressive, violent, and antisocial behavior.
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