NEUROCRIMINALISTicS By: Don Jacobs

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NEUROCRIMINALISTicSBy Don Jacobs

• The Why of the Who
• Neologism (Jacobs, 2005) for cutting-edge
  research into the criminal mind (CMA) via brain
  due to advances in Neuropsych Medical
  technoscience
• High Resolution Brain Scans PETs, fMRIs,
  SPECT, etc
• Brain Fingerprinting- The P3 wave of the
  Future
• Neuropsych Paradigms
• MacLains Triune Brain Model
• Brain Development Longitudinal Studies
  (Giedd, Volkow Neuroimaging Studies
• Blunt Affect/Histrionic (Inappropriate)
  Affect Emotional disconnects
• The Savage Architects of Mind (Jacobs, 2005)
• Brainstem/Midbrain Limbic System (MLS)
  hijacking prefrontal, temporal regions
• Tangential Criminal Profiling, Victimology,
  Psychological Autopsy

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The Prefix neuroBiological Nerve Systems

• Writer Aldous Huxley suggested we may soon have a
  academic discipline known as NEUROTHEOLOGYthe
  neurological basis of theology
• Film documentarian Roger Bingham predicted one
  day we will study NEUROPOLITICSThe biological
  basis of political behavior
• NEUROCRIMINALISTICS (Jacobs, 2005) seeks to
  untangle the pretzel of the violent, predatory
  criminal mind within the context of biology
  exacerbated by social learning.

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NeurocriminalisticsTargets What?

• The Predatory Psychopath
• Cold-blooded, remorseless, violent, sexual
  predator
• Observed as emotional disconnects
• No subjective distressEgo Syntonic
• Antisocial Violent Criminal
• Violent, often hot-blooded and remorseful
  killers
• Antisocial mindset of criminality
• Feels emotional turmoilEgo Dystonic
• Comorbid Diagnosis
• Charles MansonAntisocial, Psychopathic

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PSYCHOPATHY The First Personality Disorder

• Within each of us lies a hard, reptilian core of
  need. Neurophysiology places that core of primary
  needs in the brainstem and limbic system(by)the
  process of conditioning, of restraining, that
  primitive core breaks down in the psychopath,
  leading to (1) an impoverished internal emotional
  life and (2) an inability to empathize with
  others. It also leads to a special kind of
  violence and aggressive behavior, distinct from
  the majority of aggressors or convicted felons
  (antisocials).
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  James Santiago Grisolia
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  Violence Psychopathy
  

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Psychopathic PersonalityThe Nature of Violent,
Cold-Blooded Predators

• Psychopathy an emotionally and behaviorally
  disordered state characterized by clear
  perception of reality except for social and moral
  obligations, and often by the pursuit of
• Immediate personal gratification
• (a) criminal acts
• (b) drug addiction
• (c) sexual perversion

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Blunt Affectobserved in
Psychopathy

• Diagnostic Neurocriminalistics
  
• THE TOOLS
• From Behavioral Neuroscience
• Neurological Disconnect
• Show Joel Rifkin, and the pedophile

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Theatrical (Inappropriate) Affect observed in
psychopathy

• Out of Sinc Emotional Display
• Show Michael Ross Susan Smith

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Brain Fingerprinting

• The P3 Wave. Images of the crime cannot be
  concealed within cortices of the brainthere is
  no place to hide. Evidence stored in the brain
  will match evidence extracted at the crime scene.
  The pattern allows for a positive reading
  detected by waves occurring 300 milliseconds
  after a stimulusThe P3 Wave).
• ERP Event-related-potential is the index for
  how the brain process meaningful events with the
  distinctive P3 paradigm as events known only to a
  perpetrator and outside his/her control.

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The Triune Brain Three Brains in OneBy
Neurologist Paul MacLean
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High Resolution NeuroimagingThe Brain Scans
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Sample references

• The Psychopathology of Crime
• 1993 by Adrian Raine, Ph.D., Academic Press
• Violence and Psychopathy
• 2001 by Raine, Sanmartin Eds. Kluwer Press
• Without Conscience
• 1998 by Robert Hare, Ph.D., Guilford Press
• Guilty By Reason of Insanity
• 1994 by Dorothy Ontow Lewis, M.D.
• Neuropsych Neurological Research
• Jonathan Pinkus, Daniel Amen, Antonio Damasio
• Criminalistics An Introduction to Forensic
  Science (8th ed)
• Richard Saferstein, Ph.D.

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Forensic science texts

• LAB 40, Inside the Yellow Tape Forensic Evidence
  Analysis
• 2006 By L. Farr, E. MacKenzie, and D. Jacobs
• LAB 50, Forensic Neuropsychology The Savage
  Architects
• 2006 Jacobs and MacKenzie
• Psychology in the Age of Neuroscience The
  Forensic Science Ed., 2006 Don Jacobs
• Criminal Psych Sexual Predators in the Age of
  Neuroscience
• 2006 Don Jacobs
• Inside the Clinical Picture
• 2002 Don Jacobs
• Coming January, 2006 The Lab 50 Forensic
  Neuropsych text lab reflecting material
  presented in the Tarrant County MEs 6th annual
  convention. Go to viconpublishing.com and follow
  prompts

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Video References

• Inside the Mind of Criminal Profilers
• TLC Video (2001) Films for H S
• Psychopaths (2002) Films for H S
• The Killer Sex (2003) Films for H S
• The Mind of a Killer (2002) Films for H S

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Contact Don Jacobs

• Training Seminars
• Group Presentations
• The Teenage Brain
• The Savage Architects
• What Lies Beneath Psychopathy
• Sleep/Dreams Nightmares
• Forensic Neuropsych
• djacobs_at_wc.edu
• 817-598-6431