Have you ever wondered why there are people who kill and others don't? Do you think murderers are born or made ? In other entries of Lifestyle we talk about why serial killers exist, but this time we want to present the results around the investigations about whether people who kill are this way of birth or acquire qualities that make them kill with the passage of time.
Science after more than 100 years investigating it has found a possible answer.Apparently, homicides are born and at the same time they are made.
A mixture of brain and education
Dr.Cesare Lombroso, known as the father of modern criminology, who investigated criminals imprisoned in Turin in 1870, confirmed that criminals were a level below evolution , being like a setback to primitive man.After years of study, this doctor could identify a murderer by physical traits, but detecting potential homicides was not as simple as he expected and his studies were little validated .
After these beginnings in these investigations, with the techniques of images of functional magnetic resonance created in the 80s, brain scans could be made for further studies.
The first study done with these instruments The British neuroscientist Adrian Raine , who after years of research and many scans, confirmed that almost all potential killers perceived changes similar .There was a low activity in the area of the brain that handles the emotional impulses and a activity ad extreme in the part that creates the emotions.
So it seems that the assassins has brains that makes them more likely to feel angry and angry , and have less ability to control .
On the other hand, there are studies that relate how a person has lived his childhood to suffer more or less violent behavior and consequently become murderers.
Therefore, at present the investigations focus on minimizing violent behavior , applying different ways to raise children within families at risk.
Did you find it interesting? If you liked it, you can also read «Serial Killers: The Boston Strangler».
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