Deceitful, cunning, narcissistic, irresponsible, superficially charming, taking needless risks, and displaying little empathy, psychopaths are individuals prone to criminal lifestyles and high recidivism rates. Psychopaths’ criminality and recidivism account for why a fifth of inmates are psychopaths. Although prisons attempt to rehabilitate inmates, psychopaths pose a difficult problem for legal sentencing and rehabilitation: a psychopath’s brain functions differently than the average brain, and because psychopaths don’t process information normally, they can legally plea diminished capacity. Moreover, they are difficult to rehabilitate, because of their abnormal brain anatomy. Unfortunately, an even more pressing issue exists. The scientific
