Exploring the Criminal Mind - ECM

Introduction to

Advances of Brainscience and

Mental Procedures of the Criminal Personality.

The mind of a murderer or a sex offender - the criminal personality - is generally badly understood. New findings and new methods for exploration of the criminal mind are the basis of ECM. For the first time you can see typical subjective mental processes of criminals (lying, corrosion of deterrents, hyperoptimism etc.) linked with objectively ascertainable brain procedures or brain modes. You will see how ways of thinking act together in one unit the mental motor of crime. And you will see the unit of the criminal mind procedures and its brain modes in action.

An example of brain process is the brain’s processing of external and internal data (perception and thought) with an amygdala being “turned on” and its prefrontal areas – areas for consideration, perspective and logical thinking, modulation of violence etc. – being “turned off” or tuned down. This is a brain process contributing to a possible info-processing-disorder of the criminal consciousness.

A three-dimensional model of the criminal brain-mind is conceptualized by ECM and used as a tool for exploration from mind form to brain form. To check the feasibility of the model it is confronted with hard core evidence from PET scanning investigations of 41 criminals (murderers).

The resulting reconciliation is done with the astonishing effect that the application of the three-dimensional analyzing tool on mental states of criminal’s supports basically the same result as the scanning investigation of the murderers.

ECM describes in detail how the mechanisms work on both the soft wired mental side and on the hard wired side of the brain. The approach and methods applied create the basis of powerful tools for exploring and understanding the mechanics of criminal behavior.

ECM leaves no room for any meta-psychology or any psychology which is not based firmly on authentic studies of criminal subjective ways of thinking as well as brain science studies of the corresponding objective brain procedures, both incorporated in one criminal brain-mind. Armed with such knowledge, fundamental questions can and should be raised as to society’s habilitation and punishment of criminals. These most vital issues are presented in the two last chapters.

Further, the findings of ECM can be extended to powerful tools for neuropsychological profiling of offenders. When the criminal personality is properly understood a firm basis is also provided for enhancing interrogation and considerations for trustworthiness. These and other aspects will be covered in a later volume.

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