Neural:

• AO3: Neural

  STRENGTH:

  • Support for the link between crime and prefrontal lobe
  • Kandel and Freed 1989 reviewed evidence of frontal lobe damage and antisocial behaviour
  • People with such damage tended to show impulsive behaviour, emotional instability and an inability to learn from their mistakes
  • The frontal lobe is associated with planning behaviour
  • supports the idea that brain damage may be a casual factor in offending behaviour.
• AO3: NEURAL:

  LIMITATION:

  • link between neural differences and APD may be complex
  • other factors may contribute to APD and ultimately offending
  • Farrington et al 2006 studied a group of pp who scored high on psychopathy (APD)
  • These individuals experienced several risk factors in their childhood such as being physically neglected
  • It could be that these experienced caused APD and some of the neural differences associated with it
  • Suggests that the relationship between neural differences, APD and criminality is complex as there are many intervening variables that have an impact