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If things had gone a bit differently, neurocriminologist Adrian Raine could easily have been a murderer, or a rapist – or perhaps both, he explains. A professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Raine has spent his career attempting to prove that certain biological traits make some people more likely to commit a violent crime than their peers. “I’ve scanned my brain and it looks like the brain of a man who killed 64 people,” he says. “I have a number of the risk factors that predict someone is likely to end up violent.”
Thankfully, Raine hasn’t killed anyone, but from the controversy his work has caused, you could be forgiven for thinking he had. He has spent 35 years fighting to get his research funded and published and even had to move from the UK to the United States to get a job, where overcrowded prisons mean research on criminals is more accepted.
In his new book, The Anatomy of Violence: the Biological Roots of Crime, Raine raises the ethically fraught question of whether we should use these biological...
Thankfully, Raine hasn’t killed anyone, but from the controversy his work has caused, you could be forgiven for thinking he had. He has spent 35 years fighting to get his research funded and published and even had to move from the UK to the United States to get a job, where overcrowded prisons mean research on criminals is more accepted.
In his new book, The Anatomy of Violence: the Biological Roots of Crime, Raine raises the ethically fraught question of whether we should use these biological...