Long-term offenders have different brain structure

New research led by Dr Christina Carlisi and Professor Essi Viding (both UCL Psychology and Language Sciences) suggests that persistent criminal offenders have an abnormal brain structure compared to those who have never offended or only did so as adolescents.

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