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Criminology 2330
Video notes:
– Difficult to take care of psychopathy in children at early age because of ethical issues
(in Britain)
– It’s innate
– Not right to called a 80 year old psychopathic
– Biological basis to psychopathic behaviour , can psychopaths be held responsible?
– Research into psychopathic brains- found in psychopaths vs. non-psychopaths
emotional response was low to emotional images/words vs. a non-psychopath
prison treatment to psychopathy doesn’t work, may even make it even stronger
Incidence of psychopathy
Psychopaths seem to be underaroused, both autonomically and cortically, a finding that may
account for their difficulty in learning the rules of society :
i.e. If something makes you anxious, you’re going to try to avoid, but if you never feel
anxious you’ll never have to avoid anything, unable to be conditioned like other people