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Electrical Brain Stimulation Reduces Violent Intent by 50%, Claim Researchers

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?

Prescription For Violence: The Involuntary Intoxication Through Prescribed Medication Defense

If you commit a crime while involuntarily intoxicated through legally prescribed drugs, can you and should you be held criminally responsible for your actions?...

Addicted To Killing: Serial Killers and The Addiction Cycle

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.

A Criminal Disorder? Advances in Neurocriminology Are Leading The Way

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 punishment as we know it can continue in the same vein.

The Lucifer Effect And The Stanford Prison Experiment – Right or Wrong?

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?

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