Scientists say brain scanners can identify what is a crime

Research provides an accurate scientific tool to distinguish between unintentional crime and intentional crime.

Neuroscientists have used brain scanning to identify the difference between deliberate offenders and unintentional offenders (through their reckless actions). This is the first time researchers have deciphered criminal behavior with a brain scanner, showing brain activity in practice when criminal behavior takes place.

Researchers believe that the study will be a tool to help legal disputes about criminal offenses can be based on accurate science, emphasizing that this method will not be replaced. for decision from court.

Scientists can only decipher the intentions of people when they "fake" redoing offenses and being brainwashed. Punishment for crime can be greatly influenced by the intention when a crime is committed. If a person kills a family by crunching on them, the punishment will be much heavier than the careless driving and the death of a family.

The judge and jury must decide whether a person intends to violate the law, but how to distinguish between a deliberate offense and a criminal offense due to dangerous behavior yet to be clarified. However, these can be clearly expressed in the brain.

The researchers scanned the brains of 40 people while they participated in a computer test. These 40 people will be paid for carrying suitcases across the border. In some cases, people carrying suitcases know that there are drugs, some are not known in the suitcase. Scientists also change the possibility that "people who may be smugglers" are examined at customs.

Later, scientists set up a computer to work with images of the brain. Using an artificial intelligence method called "machine learning", researchers have found that this method can detect people who knowingly violate the law and violators because of dangerous behavior. dangerous.

Computers show the difference of the brain of those who commit deliberate and unintentional criminal acts.

Scientists want to consider more similar scans before making any firm conclusions. With more brain images from testers, this method could be applied in areas related to the brain such as distinguishing mental disorders, psychedelic hallucinations, change. Brain activity model.

Writing in magazines, scientists describe future experimental methods that can test a person's mental state when they have committed crimes in the past that can be reproduced by showing them photos from crime scene.