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Autism Disorder and Crime - Coggle Diagram
Autism Disorder and Crime
More likely to use blunt violence, strangulation, or poison
less likely to be intoxicated when committing a crime
characterized by self-injury, aggression, and disruption to environment
early developmental abnormalities in social interactions, communication, and in ability to adjust one's behavior and thinking flexibly to other individuals
deficits or abnormalities in the mentalizing abilities linked to abnormalities in perception of human faces and gazes
etiological mechanisms
or ability to recognize other mental states such as beliefs and desires that influence their behaviors
have similar executive functioning in recognition of facial expressions indicating sadness and theory of mind
characterized by increased impairment in the recognition of emotional expressions of fear
overlap between ASD and criminogenic personality disorders
psychopathy
callousness ad deficits in empathy
prone to stalking behaviors
incompetent stalker
isolation
loneliness
social ineptness
obsessive
sense of entitlement toward victim
normal sexual desires in terms of intensity and deviancy
condition marked by social communication and interaction deficits
restricted repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, and activities
5 cases per 10,000 individuals
reported rates 2-20 cases per 10,000 invidivuals
DSM-5 reports rates of ASD that approach 1% in the US population
Core structural and functional abnormalities
amygdala
structures within the limbic system
frontal cortex
abnormal processing of mentalizing
corpus callosum
temporal lobes
hippocampi
striatum
brain stem
cerebellum
volumetric increases
total brain
cerebral hemispheres
cerebellum
caudate nucleus
volumetric reduction
corpus callosum
enlargement of the brain