The brain works together to make you complete, but to many criminals they have some parts who do not have the same size as an average person, which causes them to act differently and have different thoughts. The Frontal Lobe is the one who control our emotions, and criminals who are making decisions. Frontal Lobe is one of the parts of a criminal brain that is smaller which is one reasons why criminals act violently and which they become offenders. One of the studies that was made and found out about criminals is that a portion of Amygdala which is another part of the brain that controls emotions of a human, has a volume of 18% less than normal. “ I am on your side. But you do not have a way of knowing, because our heart is blind.” Part 2 Chapter 5 pg. 120 In 1966, Charles Whitman who was experiencing irrational thoughts and horrible headaches which made him kill fourteen and wounded thirty people at Texas University and his wife and mother. …show more content…
But before killing his own family members he wrote notes asking for forgiveness and saying that he did for their own good. Charles stated that that he wanted an autopsy on his brain and help understand why he was having this psycho thoughts. When the autopsy was made they found out that Charles had a tumor called Glioblastoma which was the reason why his personality and thoughts were been affected and turn out to become a criminal.
In the brain there is a chemical called Neurotransmitter which it delivers signals and causes reactions on human. Criminal minds has different levels of Neurotransmitter like serotonin or dopamine. Serotonin helps from keeping people from acting aggressively and Dopamine affects whether a person rewarded for an action. If Dopamine increases when a criminal is acting aggressively they will feel good about it and will want to repeat it over again. Psychopaths are more harder to find out what each of their expression means. They do not show no fear but while a normal person notices a scared expression they do not doubt to feel any emotions. Because for this reason may be Psychopaths do not show any regret or remorse of their doings since they do not show no emotions. Also another reason why a person becomes a criminals or aggressive is because when their mother was pregnant she might have been experiencing any mental illness or might have been smoking while been pregnant. There has been a study that every mother who experience any of this has a 31% chance that children who went through something just like this will have mental disorders. “It occurred to me that anyway one more sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going to work, and that, really, nothing has change.” -part 1 chapter 1 pg. 12 “As if that blind rage has washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, I that night alive with signs and stars, I open myself