Adrian Raine

Adrian Raine is one of the worlds leading authorities on the minds of the violent, the criminal, the dangerous, the unstable. An Anatomy of Violence is the culmination of his lifes work so far, offering the latest answers to some of the most difficult questions: what are the causes of violence? Can it be treated? And might it one day be stopped?Are some criminals born, not made? What causes violence and how can we treat it? An Anatomy of Violence introduces readers to new ways of looking at these age-old questions. Drawing on the latest scientific research, Adrian Raine explains what it reveals about the brains of murderers, psychopaths and serial killers. While once it was thought upbringing explained all, and subsequently explanations shifted to genetics, Raine goes to great pains to explain that anti-social behaviour is complex, and based on the interaction between genetics and the biological and social environment in which a person is raised. But the latest statistical evidence between certain types of biological and early behavioural warning signs is also very strong. Through a series of case studies of famous criminals, Raine shows how their criminal behaviour might be explained on the basis of these new scientific discoveries. But the conclusions point to a host of philosophical and moral issues. What are the implications for our criminal justice system? Should we condemn and punish individuals who have little or no control over their behaviour? Should we act preemptively with people who exhibit strong biological predispositions to becoming dangerous criminals? These are among the thorny issues we can no longer ignore as our understanding of criminal behaviour grows.Praise for Adrian Raines The Psychopathology of Crime: An extremely informative, thoughtful and illuminating book ... a tour de force, David P Farrington, Psychological Medicine Adrian Raine is the Richard Perry University Professor in the Departments of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. For the past 35 years, his research has focused on the neurobiological and biosocial bases of antisocial and violent behavior, and ways to both prevent and treat it in both children and adults.

PRIMERA PARTE. PSICÓPATAS. 1. La naturaleza del psicópata: algunas observaciones para entender la violencia depredadora humana, por ROBERT D. HARE. 11. El concepto de psicopatía. 12. La evaluación de la psicopatia. 3. Psicopatia y crimen. 4. Psicopatia y violencia depredadora. 5. La psicopatia y la prediccion de la violencia. 6. Delincuentes adultos. 7. Delincuentes adolescentes. 8. Pacientes de centros psiquiatricos penitenciarios. 9. Pacientes psiquiatricos civiles. 10. Violencia sexual. 11. Una combinacion letal. 12. El tratamiento de los psicopatas. 13. Algunas hipotesis e investigaciones neurobiologicas. 14. Event-related potentials. 15. Tomografia computarizada de emision de fotones. 16. Resonancia Magnetica Funcional (RMf). Referencias bibliograficas. 2. Psicopatia, violencia y neuroimagen, por ADRIAN RAINE. 1. Introduccion. 1.1. Estudios previos de neuroimagenes de agresores. 2. Disfunciones prefrontales en asesinos. 3. Nuevos descubrimientos: el cuerpo calloso, el giro angular izquierdo y la subcorteza. 4. Etiologia. 5. Asesinos depredadores versus asesinos afectivos. 6. Influencia del ambiente familiar en las relaciones entre el cerebro y la violencia. 7. Deficiencias prefrontales de tipo estructural en delincuentes violentos. 7.1. Personalidad seudo-psicopatica y lesiones prefrontales. 7.2. Las personalidades antisociales tienen menos sustancia gris prefrontal. 7.3. Efectos colaterales de los factores de riesgo biologicos y psicosociales. 7.4. Deficiencias prefrontales de tipo estructural en la psicopatia. 7.5. Interpretacion de las deficiencias prefrontales. 8. Implicaciones filosoficas, espirituales, legales y sociales de las tecnicas de neuroimagen. 8.1. Implicaciones filosoficas. 8.2. Implicaciones para la justicia. 8.3. Implicaciones sociales. Referencias bibliograficas. 3. Emociones y psicopatia, por CHRISTOPHER J. PATRICK. 1. Introduccion. 2. Teoria de las emociones. 3. La emocion, la atencion y la modulacion del parpadeo como un reflejo del sobresalto. 4. La personalidad del psicopata: diagnostico. 5. La personalidad psicopatica: teoria e investigacion. 6. Las emociones y el sobresalto en los psicopatas criminales. 7. Relacion entre las carencias emocionales y los rasgos diagn&