Moral question: do we scan people’s brains to see who may be more likely to have criminal behaviour?
Say Mane, My Father Fits The Aggressive Parent Description Below. He Was Hostile And Belligerent Towards His Children If He Perceived His Children As Disrespecting Or Disobeying Him Or Just Doing Something That Displeased* Him. And The Hostility And Belligerence Would Manifest Itself If Severe Scoldings While He Was Severely Beating You (He Would Be Cussing You Out And Severely Admonishing You While He Was Administering Severe Corporeal Punishment).
So, We Inherited The Genes For Aggression And Violence And This Coupled With The Physically And Emotionally Abusive Household We Came From Led To Our Bellicose, Pugilistic Nature And Antisocial Attitude. (Hey, Guys, Did You Know That In The Late 70s, All Throughout The 80s, And Early To Mid 90s My Brothers Beat Up Many, Many Guys As Well As Engaged In Other Criminal Acts. So How Come None Of Them Went To County Jail Or Prison? because Laws Weren't Enforced Back Then Like They Are Now. https://twitter.com/joelfranhoops * For Instance, In The Mid To Late 80s Joel Along With The Rest Of My Brothers Would Drink And Drive On A Regular Basis, But Did Any Of Them Ever Go To Jail? Hell No. Why? because MADD (Mother's Against Drunk Driving) Hadn't Been Created Yet And Thus Hadn't Put Pressure On The Police To Enforce The Drunk Driving Law. Well, Gery** And Richie Went To Jail For One Night In OC, But That's The Extent Of Their Criminal Records.)
*In The Late 80s, Joel, David, And Another Friend Of Theirs Were Driving In Joel's Flatbed Truck Near The In~N~Out By 7th Avenue In Hacienda Heights (A Lower Socioeconomic Part Of Town) When They Got Pulled Over By The Police. Joel, Along With David And Their Other Friend, Was Blitzed, His Eyes Were Bloodshot, And Beer Cans Littered The Car. But Do You Think The Police Arrested Him (Joel)? Of Course Not. They Didn't Even Give Him A Field Sobriety Test. All The Police Did Was Tell Him To Go Home! And This Is Just One Of Many Similar Stories That Involved The Police And My Brothers.
**That One Time Gery Was Arrested In The 80s He Was Quickly Released Because The Sheriff Or Other High Ranking Police Officer Was The Father Of One Of Gery's Friends Or At Least Knew Gery In Some Other Fashion, So He Released Him Without Charging Him! Those Were The Good Ol' Days.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbqwjx/you-have-no-free-will
FREE WILL DOES N0T EXIST. WHAT EXISTS ARE CULTURE, GENETICS, AND BIOLOGY AND ALL 3 CONSPIRE TO PRODUCE YOUR THOUGHT AND BEHAVIOR WHICH IS ALL PREDETERMINED! YOU THINK YOU'VE CONSCIOUSLY PLANNED SOMETHING AND THEN CONSCIOUSLY CARRIED IT OUT, BUT THE DECISION TO PLAN THAT SOMETHING AND CARRY IT OUT WAS ALL MADE UNCONSCIOUSLY AND DRIVEN BY FACTORS (YOUR CULTURE, YOUR GENES, YOUR BIOLOGY) THAT YOU HAVE NO CONTROL OVER. IN OTHER WORDS, YOU THINK YOU'RE IN CONTROL, BUT YOU REALLY HAVE NO CONTROL OVER WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND SAYING! WATCH WHAT YOU SAY PIMP!
If we want to make sense of our behavior—all the best, worst, and everything in between—we're not going to get anywhere if we think it can all be explained with one thing, whether it's one part of the brain, one childhood experience, one hormone, one gene, or anything. Instead, a behavior is the outcome of everything from neurobiology one second before the action, to evolutionary pressure dating back millions of years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-D2iWjUWiM
The Biological Roots of Violence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcaDSJ1LplQ
Crime and violence: The biological behind murder
FREE WILL DOES N0T EXIST. WHAT EXISTS ARE CULTURE, GENETICS, AND BIOLOGY AND ALL 3 CONSPIRE TO PRODUCE YOUR THOUGHT AND BEHAVIOR WHICH IS ALL PREDETERMINED! YOU THINK YOU'VE CONSCIOUSLY PLANNED SOMETHING AND THEN CONSCIOUSLY CARRIED IT OUT, BUT THE DECISION TO PLAN THAT SOMETHING AND CARRY IT OUT WAS ALL MADE UNCONSCIOUSLY AND DRIVEN BY FACTORS (YOUR CULTURE, YOUR GENES, YOUR BIOLOGY) THAT YOU HAVE NO CONTROL OVER. IN OTHER WORDS, YOU THINK YOU'RE IN CONTROL, BUT YOU REALLY HAVE NO CONTROL OVER WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND SAYING! WATCH WHAT YOU SAY PIMP!
If we want to make sense of our behavior—all the best, worst, and everything in between—we're not going to get anywhere if we think it can all be explained with one thing, whether it's one part of the brain, one childhood experience, one hormone, one gene, or anything. Instead, a behavior is the outcome of everything from neurobiology one second before the action, to evolutionary pressure dating back millions of years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-D2iWjUWiM
The Biological Roots of Violence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcaDSJ1LplQ
Crime and violence: The biological behind murder
Talk by Professor Raine quickly goes from low amygdala volume to societal questions, do we factor in neurobiology for good of society?
Psychopaths generally have smaller amygdala structures - the brain region that regulates emotion.
The Biological Jigsaw Puzzle*
https://books.google.com/books?id=iiKODQAAQBAJ&pg=PA247&lpg=PA247&dq=carlton+gary+anatomy+of+violence&source=bl&ots=uz9c6JTIbl&sig=tG_hTUqJ0L8eC6WnF_nTOWanix0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwis7ezpxenWAhUnwFQKHckZANUQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=carlton%20gary%20anatomy%20of%20violence&f=false
READ ABOUT CARLTON GARY!
*Carlton
Gary was a series of contradictions. At one level, he was a handsome
man who worked as a model on local television. Yet he was also a pimp
and drug pusher. While he was a care giver for his elderly aunt by day,
he also perplexingly raped and murdered equally elderly white women by
night.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlton_Gary
But what if you are a murderer and you come from a good home? What causes violence here? It's certainly not the home, because in this case it's pretty good. Instead it has to be something else - a bad brain, perhaps. And that is indeed what we see...Murderers from good homes had a 14.2 percent reduction in right orbitofrontal functioning - a brain area of particular relevance to violence. Accidental damage to this brain area in previously well-controlled adults is followed by personality and emotional changes that parallel criminal psychopathic behavior, or what Antonio Damasio has termed "acquired sociopathy."
Think about it yourself. Think about people who have a bit of the bad seed about them - a friend, a neighbor, or perhaps a family member who went off the deep end even though his or her siblings stayed on the straight and narrow. Sure, some of them come from classic chaotic homes filled with domestic violence and poverty. But don't some of them have near-normal home backgrounds? Surprisingly loving parents? Two siblings can com from the same family - the same environment, the same upbringing - yet have different outcomes. Here I suggest that you should suspect subtle biological risk factors in nudging your acquaintance into crime, just as we have seen for murderers from good homes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3GQ8hi4qi4
Born bad? How to treat children who are predisposed to violence
Aggression in boys begins early, and can be predicted by violence in the family, close birth spacing, & other variables. Best if ID’d early. WSJ column by Susan Pinker. https://www.wsj.com/articles/aggression-in-boys-is-a-family-matter-11548341534 …
via @WSJ...
The emergence of genetic and biological factors for antisocial behavior in the midst of a benign home background is something I have termed the "social push" hypothesis. Where an antisocial child lacks social factors that "push," or predispose him to antisocial behavior, then biological factors may be the more likely explanation.
...when the home is normal, but the child is not, then a bad brain may be the culprit. Here the social spotlight on violence is dimmed - and what now shines through is biology.
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In a new study, which includes 808 incarcerated males,
So far I've illustrated the social-push hypothesis with respect to poorer frontal functioning in murderers from benign home backgrounds, and low fear conditioning in antisocial kids from poor homes. Yet this pattern of results has been found for a whole host of biological risk factors. As a graduate student I observed the social-moderation effect again soon after seeing the conditioning effect, finding that low resting heart rates particularly predispose schoolchildren from higher social class homes to antisocial behavior.
More important, a number of other scientists have seen the same thing. Antisocial children from privileged middle-class backgrounds attending private schools in England have low resting heart rates. Antisocial English children from intact but not broken homes have lower heart rates. Low resting heart rate also characterized English criminals without a childhood history broken by parental absence and disharmony. In The Netherlands, Dutch "privileged" offenders - those from high-social-class homes who commit crimes of evasion - show blunted skin-conductance reactivity. In Mauritian children, reduced skin conductance responding to neutral tones at age three - a measure of "orienting," or poor attention - is related to aggressive behavior at age eleven, but only in those from high-social-class backgrounds. Similarly in adults, English prisoners who are emotionally blunted and who come from intact homes - but not broken homes - show reduced skin-conductance orienting. Catherine Tuvblad, in Sweden, found that the environment moderates the link between genes and environment. As we might expect from what we learned about genetics in chapter 2, she found a genetic contribution to antisocial behavior in boys, but only those from a good home background. (The Anatomy Of Violence. Much More To Come From This Book!)
I FIT SOME OF THE ABOVE DESCRIPTIONS.
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A majority of the homeless and those in prison have a history of brain trauma -- usually repeated mTBIs and subconcussive impacts from physically abusive parents and partners.
I other words, a lot of brain disorders are caused by systematic violence, which is a biological phenomena.
Murderers tend to have less brain activity in the frontal cortex (exec function). **But brain scans are not diagnostic. #sciencetalks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERoY1hCum2E
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Bobby_Kent
https://ripeace.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/the-murder-of-bobby-kent/
THE MURDER OF BOBBY KENT! SUPPOSEDLY ALL OF THE MURDERERS CAME FROM GOOD HOMES, BUT THEY WERE ALL HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS, SO I DON'T KNOW HOW GOOD THOSE HOMES WERE! ANYWAY, READ ABOUT THEM ABOVE!
http://tentotwenty.com/bobby-kent-anxious-parenting/
WERE THE PARENTS TO BLAME? NO, THEIR PARENTING PLAYED LESS OF A ROLE THEN THEIR GENES (THEN THE PARENTS' GENES).
https://phys.org/news/2015-05-evolutionary-explanation-crime.html
https://www.victoria.ac.nz/sacs/about/news/news-archive/2015-news/evolutionary-criminology-towards-a-comprehensive-explanation-of-crime
NOW READ BELOW ABOUT WHY I DON'T HAVE CHILDREN AND WHY I MAY NEVER HAVE CHILDREN!
(When You Go To Jail Your Life Is Disrupted (You Get Off Track). Then When You Get Out Of Jail Your Life Is Further Disrupted (Is Thrown Even Further Off Track) Because You Can't Get The Type Of Jobs You Want Because You Have A Criminal Record And When You Can't Get The Type Of Jobs You Want (High Status Jobs) You Can't Get The Type Of Girls You Want (The High Status, High Genetic Quality Kind). So You're Resigned To Have SEX With Trash To Satisfy Your Sexual Needs And If You're Smart (Like ME) You Don't Have Children With Trash Because That Will Lead To You Producing Offspring Who Will Have Similar Trouble In Life As You Or Worse! That's Why I Need To Find A Female That Has Genetic Traits That, When Combined With My Genetic Traits, Won't Produce A Child That Will Have Behavioral Problems (Fight As Much As I Did) And Go To Jail As Often As I Have! My Native Hawaiian Dating Service Will Incorporate Genetic Testing So That People With Compatible Personality Traits (Which Are Genetically Inherited) Can Reproduce With One Another And Produce Offspring With G00D Traits! For Instance, If A Part Hawaiian Male And Part Hawaiian Female Find One Another Physically Attractive, But Have Conflicting Personality Traits Or Have Psychological Traits That Will Likely Result In They Producing A Child With Anti-Social Traits And A Proclivity To Criminality I'll Forewarn Them Of This And Advise Against Their Having A Child Together. I'll Tell Them That Based On Our Dating Services Genetic Computations There's A Greater Than Average Likelihood That Any Child They Produce Will Lead A Life Of Crime, Be A Burden To Society, And Cause You And Your Mate Years Of Heartache And Pain! Then I'd Do My Best To Deter And Dissuade Them From Developing A Relationship!)
http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2013/06/02/book-review-the-anatomy-of-violence-adrin-raine/
Scroll About A Quarter Of The Way Down And Start Reading Where You See The Words The LOMBROSO Program ! I'd Implement Something Similar To This!
The controversial debut of genes in criminal cases
https://moffittcaspi.trinity.duke.edu/sites/moffittcaspi.trinity.duke.edu/files/file-attachments/2017_Scurich.pdf
What Biology Can Teach Us About Crime and Justice
Do you realize that we currently practice passive eugenics on our prisoners in forty-four out of the fifty United States? Male prisoners are not allowed to send their sperm out. Female prisoners are not allowed to send their eggs out or receive sperm. If you are serving life without the possibility of parole, your genes will not reproduce. You are a loser in the evolutionary game of reproduction. That line was drawn in the judicial sand long ago.
This glaring fact is extraordinarily hush-hush. Have you ever thought about it yourself? When I raised this issue with some of my criminology colleagues, their response was that it had not crossed their minds. When I spoke to over 200 correctional staff in Trenton, New Jersey, in 2009, they admitted they had never thought about it. When I have raised this issue on several occasions in academic talks and lectures, it is followed by universal silence.
There is an irony here. Genetic researchers in the 1990s were accused of fostering a eugenic "final solution" to stopping crime. That accusation was demonstrably false. But let's be sure about one thing: our current policy of what I call "passive eugenics" on criminals did not emerge from genetic or biological research. It was a direct product of social policy. Although some well-intentioned people believe that genetic research on crime should be stopped because it could lead to eugenics, there has been no similar call to halt social-science or public policy research on crime. And yet through such policy we are effectively reducing the genetic fitness of the most serious offenders and limiting their genetic material in future gene pools.
Social scientists may have decried Lombroso's nineteenth-century thinking in branding criminals as evolutionary throwbacks, but in many ways our current thinking and our passive-eugenics policy are still stuck in the nineteenth century. Prisoners are today viewed as little more than Lombrosian subhuman savages who are not fit to reproduce. We practice passive eugenics, don't we? They shoot horses, don't they?
Consider the counterpoint. Losing the right to have children is just part and parcel of committing crime. Prisoners lose their freedom. They lose their right to vote. So why not the right to give life, especially for those who have taken life already? Retribution and deterrence are the rules of the legal game we play with prisoners, and disenfranchisement and passive eugenics are most regrettably the costs that those dealt losing hands in life simply have to pay. And yet...I was always brought up to believe that eugenics was a bad thing. (The Anatomy Of Violence)
Uncovered a great topic for Australian researcher - what is correlation of Prof Adrian Raine’s Research + aggression in sports? @QBI_UQ
