Adrian Raine Summary

Adrian Raine who also known as the first person to conduct a brain imaging study on murderers. His research and studies has convinced that while there is a social and environmental element to violent behavior there is always another side of the coin which is biology. Brian imaging studies of violent and psychopathic populations indicates that violent offenders have structural and functional defects to the frontal lobe and the temporal love. In Jeffrey Reiman’s side, he argues that social factors, including poverty, prisons, gun polices, and our modern drug control efforts, generate a type of environment for individuals in which people get to violate the law. According to Reiman prisons produces more criminals than it cures. He states that more than 70 percent inmates in the jails are not there for first time. In a study of Bureau of …show more content…
Criminal behavior is learned. Adrian Riane and Jeffrey Reiman made really good arguments whether Criminal Behavior Determined Biologically. Adrian Raine says yes, it’s based on genetic make-up (twin studies), adoption, Nutrition, hormones, brain imaging. And on the other side, Reiman states it’s based on poverty issues, prison maintenances, and drugs. According to my personal view, I believe that criminal behavior is not biologically determined. In order to be biologically determined the person should have mental illness that drive him or her to commit crimes. But, not everyone is born mental who committing crime. We also have people with clean backgrounds with not history of crime at all; then how to learn criminal behavior? Everything is just learned based on where you live, how you live, education, and family support. These all shape you in a specific way which you follow later in life. So, at the end not everyone is born criminal, not everyone is criminal, not every criminal is bad, and it is your environment makes you