Sympathy for the Devil?
Sympathy for the Devil? by Ellie Ben-Zion Are psychopaths deserving of the criminal punishment they receive? In this heated article, Barbara Bradley Hagerty, a New York Times best selling author, gets into the nitty gritty of what most people don't want to consider. She explores how much of a criminal's behavior is controllable and tackles battling arguments between doctors on the subject. Hagerty's article also showed me a lot about relatively new technology that gives us a lot of insight into the brains of "psychopaths". A doctor named Kent Kiehl is practically an expert on psychopaths. He uses a mobile MRI to travel to maximum- security prisons and test inmates on their psychopathy levels. Pause! Who knew that there was a test? I certainly didn't realize these characteristics were so black and white, but apparently it is! Doctors are able to test psychopathy levels by using an MRI while flashing three photos during the brain scan to see what parts of t...