@article{ref1,
title="Scientism, ethics and evil: from mens rea to cerebrum reus",
journal="International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology",
year="2022",
author="Palermo, Mark T.",
volume="66",
number="9",
pages="1036-1048",
abstract="Can criminology thrive on quantitative studies alone? Can evil be operationalized? Quantitative work may have, for the time being, supplanted common sense, personal experience and resulting in an improbable &quot;Periodic Table of humanity&quot;. Has the construction of the psychopathic concept surpassed positivist &quot;constitutional&quot; formulations and translated into effective (re)habilitation of individuals lacking affiliative ethical behaviors? Or has it simply fueled a deterministic neo-Lombrosian truism: moral development has a brain. Has it helped so far? Has letting go of fundamental moral concepts, implicit in organized religion - but pervasive in most cultures irrespective of religious affiliation and devotion - in favor of causal explanations based solely on neuroimaging, personality inventories or structured emotional decoding tasks, made a difference in the life - or in the defense for that matter - of wrongdoers diagnosed as intrinsically evil?<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0306-624X",
doi="10.1177/0306624X221104959",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X221104959"
}