"Neurocriminology", a new approach to the analysis of juvenile violent crime (With emphasis on age-crime curve)

Abstract

Abstract; One of the most important types of crimes mentioned in the Islamic Penal Code is violent crimes. Violent crimes cover a wide range of crimes which despite many differences, they are shared in having the element of "aggression". Some of the researches conducted about age-crime curve have proven that among the four age groups "children and adolescents", "the youth", "the middle-aged" and "the elderly", the first age group is more involved in violent crimes than the other groups. In this regard, this article seeks to consider violent crimes of children and adolescents, with a focus on the study fields of "neurological impairment", "attention deficit hyperactivity disorder" and "brain chemistry", as three branches of "neurophysiology", an issue that in contemporary criminology known as "Neuro criminology". Although biological criminologists disagree about the ways of communication between neural disorders with violent crimes of children and adolescents, most of them believe that amount of the impact of each the above three fields is completely "relative" and true in interaction with the psychological and social factors.

Keywords

• neurocriminology
• violent crimes
• juvenile offenders
• age-crime curve