Kent Kiehl’s Search for the Criminal Brain America’s self-proclaimed “psychopath whisperer” says he can predict criminality in incarcerated people. Is the legal system buying it?
Since the 19th century, researchers have attempted to uncover the biological roots of criminality. The process has been both scientifically dubious and ethically fraught. While biological theories of criminal behavior faded after World War II, they arose again in the 1990s and early 2000s, when new...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/157116 |