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