Detection of the future criminals:

introduction:
• Through echoes Hollywood science fiction
movie 'Minority Report' which focused on
detection of pre-crime, criminologists have
claimed that brain scans could help pick up
violent tendencies in children as young as four.
:Could crimes one day be predicted, as
they were in the Spielberg film
"Minority Report"?
 Detection of the future criminals:
• 1.U.S. scientists have discovered that by looking at the brain of a
three-years old child can detect whether it have a criminal
tendencies. The origins of crime and antisocial behavior can be
found in children as young as only three years old, according to a
criminal psychologist Adrian Raine and Nathalie Fontaine.

• 2.By this conclusion,studying the brain scans in children after

compare that with their subsequent behavior. Studies have shown
that psychopaths and criminals have developed different parts of
the brain that are associated with the behavior, guilt and empathy.

• 3."By identifying these types of antisocial behavior and the with

proper approach would prevent criminal behavior, " explains Raine
and Fontaine.
• 4.Their research showed that punishment of children did
not show significant improvement. Results are achieved
only by hard work, counseling with troubled children, as
well as praise for the breakthrough achieved. Progress was
also demonstrated by those who were taking food and
medicine rich with Omega 3 fatty acids.

• 5.The study was conducted at nine thousand twins whose

development was followed over several years. Scientists
.
hope to be able to begin soon to implement to identify
individual children from troubled families, but the question
is how to protect these children from other types of
marking from their childhood.
 Child brain scans to pick out future
criminals

The seeds of criminal and anti-social behaviour

can be found in children as young as three,
scientists have claimed.
 the researchers argue that, by
predicting which children have the
potential to be trouble, treatments
could be introduced to keep them on
the straight and narrow
• 1.More researchers believe that violent tendencies
have a biological basis.

• 2.They argue that, by predicting which children have

the potential to be trouble, treatments could be
introduced to keep them on the straight and narrow

• 3.The theories were put forward by two leading

criminologists at the American Association for the
Advancement of Science in Washington.
 Prof Adrian Raine
• a British criminologist ,a former Home Office psychologist who
works at the University of Pennsylvania, argued that abnormal
physical brain make-up could be a cause of criminality, as well as
helping to predict it.
• His studies have shown that psychopaths and criminals have smaller
areas of the brain such as the amygdala and prefrontal cortex, both
of which regulate and control emotion and behaviour.
• He also believes that a lack of conditioning to fear punishment,
which can be measured in toddlers before disruptive behaviour is
apparent, could also be a strong indicator.
• he also said therapy could include counselling to counteract innate
behavioural problems and boosting the brain with drugs or foods
rich in Omega 3.
 Dr Nathalie Fontaine:
• from Indiana University,who also spoke at the conference, argued
that children as young as four exhibited “callous unemotional traits”
such as lack of guilt and empathy that could also suggest future bad
behaviour.

• Linking these features with “conduct problems” such as throwing

tantrums could be a strong way to predict who could be anti-social
in later life.

• she said the work showed that punishment did not necessarily work
“If we could identify those children early enough, we could help
them as well as their families,” she says.
Dr Fontaine used data from more than 9,000 twins from the Twins Early
Development Study, a survey of twins born in England and Wales
between 1994 and 1996

She found there was a correlation between risk factors at a young age
and bad behaviour at an older age.
 conclusion
• Dr Raine said he acknowledged the ethical
implications of treating children before they
had done anything wrong, but argued that
“biological” causes of crime could not be
ignored.
• We could be ostriches and stick our heads in
the sand but I believe we have to pursue the
causes of crime at a biological and genetic
level as well as at a social,” he said.