Criminal Minds - Testing the brain before birth to separate the good from the bad...

[BridgeTheGap]

When he was in his late 20s and living in his native England, Adrian Raine spent a lot of time locked in a van with violent criminals.

Raine worked at a maximum security prison in Hull, where his job involved attaching polygraph-type sensors to the prisoners’ skin to measure their agitation as he bothered them with loud sounds and flashes of light. His lab was in the back of a van, he says, “and the guards were very concerned these men would commandeer the vehicle and escape.”

Their solution? “Take my keys away and lock the doors from the outside.”

“So there I was, in this very tiny space,” recalls Raine, who is now in his 50s and is the chair of the criminology department at the University of Pennsylvania. “And I kept watching the needles these sensors were connected to, for I imagined that the first sign these men were about to rush me would be the needles starting to swing wildly as the men got excited and prepared to attack.”

Read more: http://www.utne.com/Science-Technology/Neurodevelopmental-Criminology-Acquired-Sociopathy-Predict-Criminals.aspx#ixzz1f6Z8sFfl

[saras]

1. Too bad that "good" and "bad" are almost entirely subjective and decided by the powers that be

OBVIOUSLY the desire to rebel against "legitimate" authority is "bad" and needs to be controlled, with drugs or surgery.

[BridgeTheGap]

2. It's worse than that. Psychopaths are well placed in positions of power. The policies

they push are indicative of their psychopathy.

[applegrove]

3. And psychopaths teach people 'underneath them' how to act and what to believe.

[BridgeTheGap]

4. It quickly becomes apparent that you either play the game their way or you're out! n.t

[applegrove]

5. Actually I had one in my life and even though I kept rejecting him, not knowing

he was the same guy, he kept on trying to get me in his life and to admire him. Like I was a person who had a part to play and he needed me to follow him, at least at first....he isolated me from my friends to get me to follow his line. Later on he wanted to destroy me...when I guess I became a liability because he thought I had him figured out (i had not at that point)Then I did figure him out a bit and he tried to isolate me from everyone. very strange how they try to develop followers according to their agenda. But no, they don't reject people who don't agree with them if said people are needed. I guess it varies amongst psychopaths how much frustration they can handle. For the more educated psychopaths they don't knee jerk as much as the poorer ones. They still can't control themselves but get caught less often because they play more of a psychological game.

[groovedaddy]

6. Varying levels of cunning. They are all about using you (or any one). When

they think you are on to them, that's when they turn on you. What you described is fairly classic pyschopathic behavior.