Brain Injuries

• Theory summary: injuries and disorders that change the brain can change your personality and make it more likely that you will commit crime
• Strengths: In some extreme cases brain injuries can lead to major changes
• Strengths: Correlation between EEG + psychopathic criminality
• Strengths: Prisoners are more likely than non prisoners to have a brain injury 
• Weaknesses: Crime caused by brain injuries are rare
• Weakness: it is not clear that abnormal EEG causes psychopathic tendencies
• Weaknesses: Some criminals have normal EEG
• Weakness: Prisoners likelihood of brain injuries could be because of criminality not the cause of it