THE NEUROSCIENCE OF CRIME: EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF TBI AND BRAIN TUMORS ON CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR
Volume 3Issue IV Year 2024
ADVAITHA SALIN
School of Legal Studies, CUSAT , Kochi-22
advaithasalin@gmail.com
Table of Contents
ADVAITHA SALIN
School of Legal Studies, CUSAT , Kochi-22
advaithasalin@gmail.com
Traumatic Brain Injury- Brain lesions- Criminal Behaviour- Crime- Legal Approach
1. Mollayeva T, Mollayeva S, Colantonio A. Traumatic brain injury: sex, gender and intersecting vulnerabilities. Nat Rev Neurol. 2018 Dec;14(12):711-722. doi: 10.1038/s41582-018-0091-y. PMID: 30397256.
2. Hughes N, Williams WH, Chitsabesan P, Walesby RC, Mounce LT, Clasby B. The prevalence of traumatic brain injury among young offenders in custody: a systematic review. J Head Trauma Rehabil. 2015 Mar-Apr;30(2):94-105. doi: 10.1097/HTR.0000000000000124. PMID: 25734840.
3. Williams WH, Chitsabesan P, Fazel S, McMillan T, Hughes N, Parsonage M, Tonks J. Traumatic brain injury: a potential cause of violent crime? Lancet Psychiatry. 2018 Oct;5(10):836-844. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(18)30062-2. Epub 2018 Feb 26. Erratum in: Lancet Psychiatry. 2018 Oct;5(10):e24. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(18)30271-2. PMID: 29496587; PMCID: PMC6171742.
4. Parsonage M., Traumatic Brain Injury and Offending: an economic analysis, London Centre for Mental Health,2016
5. Ministry of Justice, Proven re-offending statistics quarterly bulletin,( London, July 2010 -June 2011)
6. Ibid 3
7. F Arnold, The Lancet Health care for prisoners and young offenders. Lancet 2009; 373:603
8. Ibid 3
9. Brower MC, Price BH. Neuropsychiatry of frontal lobe dysfunction in violent and criminal behaviour: a critical review. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2001 Dec;71(6):720-6. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.71.6.720. PMID: 11723190; PMCID: PMC1737651.
10. Grafman J, Schwab K, Warden D, Pridgen A, Brown HR, Salazar AM. Frontal lobe injuries, violence, and aggression: a report of the Vietnam Head Injury Study. Neurology. 1996 May;46(5):1231-8. doi: 10.1212/wnl.46.5.1231. PMID: 8628458.
11. Max JE, Robertson BA, Lansing AE. The phenomenology of personality change due to traumatic brain injury in children and adolescents. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2001 Spring;13(2):161-70. doi: 10.1176/jnp.13.2.161. PMID: 11449023.
12. Stoddard SA, Zimmerman MA. Association of interpersonal violence with self-reported history of head injury. Pediatrics. 2011 Jun;127(6):1074-9. doi: 10.1542/peds.2010-2453. Epub 2011 May 29. PMID: 21624875; PMCID: PMC3103270.
13. Ryan, N. P., Anderson, V., Godfrey, C., Beauchamp, M. H., Coleman, L., Eren, S., Rosema, S., Taylor, K., & Catroppa, C. (2014). ,Predictors of very-long-term sociocognitive function after pediatric traumatic brain injury: Evidence for the vulnerability of the immature social brain, Journal of Neurotrauma, 31(7), 649-657.https://doi.org/10.1089/neu.2013.3153
14. Ryan NP, Anderson V, Godfrey C, Eren S, Rosema S, Taylor K, Catroppa C., Social communication mediates the relationship between emotion perception and externalizing behaviors in young adult survivors of pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI). Int J Dev Neurosci. 2013 Dec;31(8):811-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2013.10.002. Epub 2013 Oct 15. PMID: 24140241.
15. Fazel S, Wolf A, Pillas D, Lichtenstein P, Langstrom N., Suicide, fatal injuries, and other causes of premature mortality in patients with traumatic brain injury: a 41-year Swedish population study. JAMA Psychiatry. 2014 Mar;71(3):326-33. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.3935. PMID: 24430827; PMCID: PMC4058552.
16. Leon-Carrion J, Ramos FJ. Blows to the head during development can predispose to violent criminal behaviour: rehabilitation of consequences of head injury is a measure for crime prevention., Brain Inj. 2003 Mar;17(3):207-16. doi: 10.1080/0269905021000010249. PMID: 12623497.
17. Darby RR, Horn A, Cushman F, Fox MD., Lesion network localization of criminal behavior,. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Jan 16;115(3):601-606. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1706587115. Epub 2017 Dec 18. PMID: 29255017; PMCID: PMC5776958.
18. Ibid
19. Saver JL, Damasio AR. ,Preserved access and processing of social knowledge in a patient with acquired sociopathy due to ventromedial frontal damage,. Neuropsychologia. 1991;29(12):1241-9. doi: 10.1016/0028-3932(91)90037-9. PMID: 1791934.
20. Blumer D, Benson DF. Personality changes with frontal lobe lesions. In Benson DF, Blumer D, editors. Psychiatric Aspects of Neurological Disease. Grune & Stratton; New York: 1975. Pp 151-170
21. Glenn, A., Raine, A. Neurocriminology: implications for the punishment, prediction and prevention of criminal behaviour. Nat Rev Neurosci 15, 54-63 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn3640
22. Batts S., Brain lesions and their implications in criminal responsibility. Behav Sci Law. 2009 Mar-Apr;27(2):261-72. doi: 10.1002/bsl.857. PMID: 19319837.
23. Batts S., Brain lesions and their implications in criminal responsibility. Behav Sci Law. 2009 Mar-Apr;27(2):261-72. doi: 10.1002/bsl.857. PMID: 19319837.
24. Ibid 23
25. Grafman J, Schwab K, Warden D, Pridgen A, Brown HR, Salazar AM. Frontal lobe injuries, violence, and aggression: a report of the Vietnam Head Injury Study. Neurology. 1996 May;46(5):1231-8. doi: 10.1212/wnl.46.5.1231. PMID: 8628458.
26. Ibid 23
27. Oliver R. Goodenough and Kristin Prehn,Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences , Nov. 29, 2004, Vol. 359, No. 1451, Law and the Brain (Nov. 29, 2004), pp. 1709-1726
28. 8 English Reports 718; 10 Clark & Finnellys House of Lords Cases 200
29. Zeki, Semir & Goodenough, Oliver & Sapolsky, Robert. (2004). The frontal cortex and the criminal justice system. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences. 359. 10.1098/rstb.2004.1547.
30. Rithika Srivastava , NEUROSCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE IN THE CRIMINAL TRIALS: MAPPING THE OTHER SIDE OF COURTROOM PROCEEDINGS, , Journal of legal research and juridical sciences, Vol 2 Issue 3
31. AIR SC 2595.
32. AIR 2019 SC 3592
33. Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) vs. Union of India, AIR 2018 SC (SUPP) 1841
34. AIR 2010 SUPREME COURT 1974
35. Tanford, J. Alexander (1989) A Political-choice Approach to Limiting Prejudicial Evidence, Indiana Law Journal: Vol. 64: Iss. 4, Article 2
36. Andrea L Glenn and Adrian Raine, Neurocriminology: Implications for the Punishment, Prediction and Prevention of Criminal Behaviour, (2014) 15(1) Nature Reviews Neuroscience
37. 6 D D Langleben and JC Moriarty, "Using neuroscience to advance the criminal law debate"(2013) 14(1) Columbia Science and Technology Law Review
References
1. Mollayeva T, Mollayeva S, Colantonio A. Traumatic brain injury: sex, gender and intersecting vulnerabilities. Nat Rev Neurol. 2018 Dec;14(12):711-722. doi: 10.1038/s41582-018-0091-y. PMID: 30397256.
2. Hughes N, Williams WH, Chitsabesan P, Walesby RC, Mounce LT, Clasby B. The prevalence of traumatic brain injury among young offenders in custody: a systematic review. J Head Trauma Rehabil. 2015 Mar-Apr;30(2):94-105. doi: 10.1097/HTR.0000000000000124. PMID: 25734840.
3. Williams WH, Chitsabesan P, Fazel S, McMillan T, Hughes N, Parsonage M, Tonks J. Traumatic brain injury: a potential cause of violent crime? Lancet Psychiatry. 2018 Oct;5(10):836-844. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(18)30062-2. Epub 2018 Feb 26. Erratum in: Lancet Psychiatry. 2018 Oct;5(10):e24. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(18)30271-2. PMID: 29496587; PMCID: PMC6171742.
4. Parsonage M., Traumatic Brain Injury and Offending: an economic analysis, London Centre for Mental Health,2016
5. Ministry of Justice, Proven re-offending statistics quarterly bulletin,( London, July 2010 -June 2011)
6. Ibid 3
7. F Arnold, The Lancet Health care for prisoners and young offenders. Lancet 2009; 373:603
8. Ibid 3
9. Brower MC, Price BH. Neuropsychiatry of frontal lobe dysfunction in violent and criminal behaviour: a critical review. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2001 Dec;71(6):720-6. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.71.6.720. PMID: 11723190; PMCID: PMC1737651.
10. Grafman J, Schwab K, Warden D, Pridgen A, Brown HR, Salazar AM. Frontal lobe injuries, violence, and aggression: a report of the Vietnam Head Injury Study. Neurology. 1996 May;46(5):1231-8. doi: 10.1212/wnl.46.5.1231. PMID: 8628458.
11. Max JE, Robertson BA, Lansing AE. The phenomenology of personality change due to traumatic brain injury in children and adolescents. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2001 Spring;13(2):161-70. doi: 10.1176/jnp.13.2.161. PMID: 11449023.
12. Stoddard SA, Zimmerman MA. Association of interpersonal violence with self-reported history of head injury. Pediatrics. 2011 Jun;127(6):1074-9. doi: 10.1542/peds.2010-2453. Epub 2011 May 29. PMID: 21624875; PMCID: PMC3103270.
13. Ryan, N. P., Anderson, V., Godfrey, C., Beauchamp, M. H., Coleman, L., Eren, S., Rosema, S., Taylor, K., & Catroppa, C. (2014). ,Predictors of very-long-term sociocognitive function after pediatric traumatic brain injury: Evidence for the vulnerability of the immature social brain, Journal of Neurotrauma, 31(7), 649-657.https://doi.org/10.1089/neu.2013.3153
14. Ryan NP, Anderson V, Godfrey C, Eren S, Rosema S, Taylor K, Catroppa C., Social communication mediates the relationship between emotion perception and externalizing behaviors in young adult survivors of pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI). Int J Dev Neurosci. 2013 Dec;31(8):811-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2013.10.002. Epub 2013 Oct 15. PMID: 24140241.
15. Fazel S, Wolf A, Pillas D, Lichtenstein P, Langstrom N., Suicide, fatal injuries, and other causes of premature mortality in patients with traumatic brain injury: a 41-year Swedish population study. JAMA Psychiatry. 2014 Mar;71(3):326-33. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.3935. PMID: 24430827; PMCID: PMC4058552.
16. Leon-Carrion J, Ramos FJ. Blows to the head during development can predispose to violent criminal behaviour: rehabilitation of consequences of head injury is a measure for crime prevention., Brain Inj. 2003 Mar;17(3):207-16. doi: 10.1080/0269905021000010249. PMID: 12623497.
17. Darby RR, Horn A, Cushman F, Fox MD., Lesion network localization of criminal behavior,. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Jan 16;115(3):601-606. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1706587115. Epub 2017 Dec 18. PMID: 29255017; PMCID: PMC5776958.
18. Ibid
19. Saver JL, Damasio AR. ,Preserved access and processing of social knowledge in a patient with acquired sociopathy due to ventromedial frontal damage,. Neuropsychologia. 1991;29(12):1241-9. doi: 10.1016/0028-3932(91)90037-9. PMID: 1791934.
20. Blumer D, Benson DF. Personality changes with frontal lobe lesions. In Benson DF, Blumer D, editors. Psychiatric Aspects of Neurological Disease. Grune & Stratton; New York: 1975. Pp 151-170
21. Glenn, A., Raine, A. Neurocriminology: implications for the punishment, prediction and prevention of criminal behaviour. Nat Rev Neurosci 15, 54-63 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn3640
22. Batts S., Brain lesions and their implications in criminal responsibility. Behav Sci Law. 2009 Mar-Apr;27(2):261-72. doi: 10.1002/bsl.857. PMID: 19319837.
23. Batts S., Brain lesions and their implications in criminal responsibility. Behav Sci Law. 2009 Mar-Apr;27(2):261-72. doi: 10.1002/bsl.857. PMID: 19319837.
24. Ibid 23
25. Grafman J, Schwab K, Warden D, Pridgen A, Brown HR, Salazar AM. Frontal lobe injuries, violence, and aggression: a report of the Vietnam Head Injury Study. Neurology. 1996 May;46(5):1231-8. doi: 10.1212/wnl.46.5.1231. PMID: 8628458.
26. Ibid 23
27. Oliver R. Goodenough and Kristin Prehn,Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences , Nov. 29, 2004, Vol. 359, No. 1451, Law and the Brain (Nov. 29, 2004), pp. 1709-1726
28. 8 English Reports 718; 10 Clark & Finnellys House of Lords Cases 200
29. Zeki, Semir & Goodenough, Oliver & Sapolsky, Robert. (2004). The frontal cortex and the criminal justice system. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences. 359. 10.1098/rstb.2004.1547.
30. Rithika Srivastava , NEUROSCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE IN THE CRIMINAL TRIALS: MAPPING THE OTHER SIDE OF COURTROOM PROCEEDINGS, , Journal of legal research and juridical sciences, Vol 2 Issue 3
31. AIR SC 2595.
32. AIR 2019 SC 3592
33. Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) vs. Union of India, AIR 2018 SC (SUPP) 1841
34. AIR 2010 SUPREME COURT 1974
35. Tanford, J. Alexander (1989) A Political-choice Approach to Limiting Prejudicial Evidence, Indiana Law Journal: Vol. 64: Iss. 4, Article 2
36. Andrea L Glenn and Adrian Raine, Neurocriminology: Implications for the Punishment, Prediction and Prevention of Criminal Behaviour, (2014) 15(1) Nature Reviews Neuroscience
37. 6 D D Langleben and JC Moriarty, "Using neuroscience to advance the criminal law debate"(2013) 14(1) Columbia Science and Technology Law Review