Criminal Mind Criminal behavior is caused by many factors in the brain and body of the criminal. Some of these include: a gene pool that is predisposed to crime, imbalance in brain chemistry ,or lesions in the brain. Based on a study made by Dr. Simone Shamay-Tsoory, a professor from the University of Haifa in Israel, and his colleagues concluded that violent behavior originates from damage to the frontal lobe. Also, a study in Finland discovered that genes are associated with violent crimes. People would assume that Dick and Perry are responsible for their heinous crimes, however, due to mental disorders, social influences, and their emotional states, they are not highly responsible. Those born with mental disorders have the tendency
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Dick claimed that his friend, Floyd Wells, gave him motive to raid the Clutter’s house for money. Capote said, “He wanted to know if Mr. Clutter was a wealthy man… I said yes” (161). Wells influenced, Dick, directly or indirectly to covet the Clutter’s possessions, which then brought his thoughts to his greed and want for money with no restrictions. According to Helen Fisher, “patients with a history of childhood trauma tend to present with a variety of addition problems, including PSTD, substance abuse, higher levels of greater depression and anxiety…” Because both defendants didn’t have a loving families and childhoods, they were markedly more vulnerable to stressors and violence than the average …show more content…
From these reasons, the just ruling is that the defendants are guilty and should be sentenced to life in prison. The death sentence should not be administered because although they were responsible for the deaths of a family, they did not do it intentionally and many factors influenced them to persuade through the crimes. They do not deserve the death penalty because society depicts criminals as villains regardless of background information which puts many people with problems in bad situations. The environment affects how they think and act, but it doesn't imprint them and become one with them. According to deathpenaltyinfo.org, “inmates who are insane, that is, so out of touch with reality that they do not know right from wrong and cannot understand the purpose of it.” This means those who plead insane aren’t in touch with reality and don’t have the same morality as the average human, causing them to become more vulnerable to extreme
Dick claimed that his friend, Floyd Wells, gave him motive to raid the Clutter’s house for money. Capote said, “He wanted to know if Mr. Clutter was a wealthy man… I said yes” (161). Wells influenced, Dick, directly or indirectly to covet the Clutter’s possessions, which then brought his thoughts to his greed and want for money with no restrictions. According to Helen Fisher, “patients with a history of childhood trauma tend to present with a variety of addition problems, including PSTD, substance abuse, higher levels of greater depression and anxiety…” Because both defendants didn’t have a loving families and childhoods, they were markedly more vulnerable to stressors and violence than the average …show more content…
From these reasons, the just ruling is that the defendants are guilty and should be sentenced to life in prison. The death sentence should not be administered because although they were responsible for the deaths of a family, they did not do it intentionally and many factors influenced them to persuade through the crimes. They do not deserve the death penalty because society depicts criminals as villains regardless of background information which puts many people with problems in bad situations. The environment affects how they think and act, but it doesn't imprint them and become one with them. According to deathpenaltyinfo.org, “inmates who are insane, that is, so out of touch with reality that they do not know right from wrong and cannot understand the purpose of it.” This means those who plead insane aren’t in touch with reality and don’t have the same morality as the average human, causing them to become more vulnerable to extreme