Author: Munthe, Christian; Radovic, Susanna
Title: The Return of Lombroso? Ethical Aspects of (Visions of) Preventive Forensic Screening Document date: 2015_1_28
ID: w2fjy5od_16
Snippet: The evidence base of the neurobiological version of the new Lombrosian vision is so far rather weak, and the methodological challenges to moving forward are partly similar as in the genetic case. A substantial limitation is the small sample size and the absence of controls in studies held out by neurocriminology advocates-as when the volume of the amygdala has been assessed in a small number of extremely violent offenders and proposed as evidence.....
Document: The evidence base of the neurobiological version of the new Lombrosian vision is so far rather weak, and the methodological challenges to moving forward are partly similar as in the genetic case. A substantial limitation is the small sample size and the absence of controls in studies held out by neurocriminology advocates-as when the volume of the amygdala has been assessed in a small number of extremely violent offenders and proposed as evidence for this to be a neurological determinant of the crimes of these people, without any data on the fate of other people with comparable amygdala volumes, or the amygdala volumes of other comparable offenders (Raine, 2013) . As the authors of a very recent overview conclude:
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