뇌과학 영상기반의 사이코패스 연구와 형사정책적 과제

Neuroscience-based psychopath research and criminal policy

Psychopathy is a complex personality disorder that includes interpersonal and affective traits such as glibness, lack of empathy, guilt or remorse, shallow affect, and irresponsibility, and behavioral characteristics such as impulsivity, poor behavioral control, and promiscuity. Much is known about the assessment of psychopathy; however, relatively little is understood about the relevant brain disturbances. Brain research on psychopathy may affect punishment, prediction, and interventions. The combination of structural and functional abnormalities provides compelling evidence that the dysfunction observed in this crucial social-emotional circuitry is a stable characteristic of our psychopathic offenders. This study shows directly - that there is a specific brain abnormality associated with criminal psychopathy. psychopaths lack moral rationality and that severe psychopaths should be excused from crimes that violate the moral rights of others.