Project Description
Adrian Raine is the Richard Perry University Professor in the Departments of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Raine’s main area of interest is Neurocriminology – a new sub-discipline of Criminology which applies neuroscience techniques to probe the causes of and cures for crime. His laboratory focuses on risk and protective factors for childhood conduct disorder, reactive and proactive aggression, adult antisocial personality disorder, homicide, and psychopathy. His clinical neuroscience research program encompasses adults, adolescents, and children, and explore interests in both male and female antisocial behavior. Techniques used in his research include structural and functional brain imaging, autonomic and central nervous system psychophysiology, neuroendocrinology, neuropsychology, genetics, x-ray fluorescence, and transcranial direct current stimulation. He takes a biosocial perspective to the investigation of antisocial behavior in which the end-goal is to integrate social, psychological, and environmental processes with neurobiological approaches to better understand antisocial behavior. How this knowledge has implications for law is also of interest to his lab. Dr. Raine is the author of The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime.
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