Brain Scan Predicts Whether Convicts Will Re-Offend

[varelse]

en with lower activity in the anterior cingulate cortex were found to be significantly more likely to commit crimes after their release. It's a significant correlation: men in the bottom half of anterior cingulate cortex activity were 2.6 times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes and 4.3 times more likely to be arrested for nonviolent crimes.

Brain Scan Predicts Whether Convicts Will Re-Offend: Welcome To The Sci-Fi Future | Popular Science

Something the Parole board might look at someday?

 

[Mad Scientist]

That's a good idea and a great way to keep productive prisoners in jail.

 

[Noomi]

^just because a scan shows that the person is likely to reoffend, doesn't mean they will. You can't keep someone in jail just because they might offend again.

 

[varelse]

^just because a scan shows that the person is likely to reoffend, doesn't mean they will. You can't keep someone in jail just because they might offend again.

Yes, it is. That's the whole point of a parole hearing: to determine whether they should be let out at that time or held lest they reoffend

 

[Noomi]

^just because a scan shows that the person is likely to reoffend, doesn't mean they will. You can't keep someone in jail just because they might offend again.

Yes, it is. That's the whole point of a parole hearing: to determine whether they should be let out at that time or held lest they reoffend

Yes, that is true - but should we allow the parole board to take a brain scan into account, when they might otherwise decide (without the scan) that the person is of low risk?

 

[Politico]

I love the Leftytoons. Let's have Precrime determine whether people should be incarcerated for something they haven't done..

 

[varelse]

^just because a scan shows that the person is likely to reoffend, doesn't mean they will. You can't keep someone in jail just because they might offend again.

Yes, it is. That's the whole point of a parole hearing: to determine whether they should be let out at that time or held lest they reoffend

Yes, that is true - but should we allow the parole board to take a brain scan into account, when they might otherwise decide (without the scan) that the person is of low risk?

Is it fundamentally any different than saying 'he blinks too much when he tells us he's rehabilitated; I don't believe him.'?

The scan could also have the opposite effect- convincing them that the person in question should be released, when they were otherwise leaning toward not releasing him.

I love the Leftytoons. Let's have Precrime determine whether people should be incarcerated for something they haven't done..

If you can't be bothered using Google to see what parole is, you should stay out the discussion and merely be thought an idiot.