Ever wonder how the criminals you hear about on tv. can possibly do the inhuman evil things that they do? Do you wonder how they could ever possibly have it in them to torture and kill fifteen children just because they can, brutally rape women, or blow up a whole building of people? Well have you ever considered that their minds don't work the way yours does? That not only do they THINK differently than the rest of the population, but their brains ACTUALLY function and work completely differently? Behind this research could be the key to finding out why crazed serial killers and rapists act the way they do, and more importantly how we could stop it.
                 According to fox news, the latest neuroscience research shows that compared to people without antisocial personality disorder- a condition that characterizes many convicted criminals- an 18-percent reduction in the volume of the brain's middle frontal gyrus, and a 9 percent reduction in the volume of the orbital frontal gyrus (two sections of the brain) was found in the people with this disorder. These conditions could cause a person to have no general understanding of the basics of right and wrong, therefore causing violent outbreaks from as small as steeling a candy bar, to as severe as murder. Another research showed that many people who are convicted murderers show damage to a part of the brain called the amygdale; this is the part of the brain where your emotions set.
                  I believe this research is crucially important. If scientists have gotten this FAR in depicting the criminal mind phycologicly and finding out WHY exactly mindless criminals act this way, then maybe they could go a little further eventually and create a cure for these kind of brain deficiencies. Then if people start to show signs of having these disorders, they could start medication from an early state and may be murder could be avoided. Of course scientists could not solve near all murders and crime this way. It would be impossible to find out the reasoning behind all crime, but this could really help and I think it's worth trying.