Offenders with autism spectrum disorder
(2018) 1-2. p.273-299- Abstract
This chapter expresses that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a heterogeneous disorder where several neural networks are involved in producing the behavioral symptoms. Comorbidity in other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders is a hallmark of ASD. The chapter presents an overview of the clinical and neurobiological characteristics of ASD as well as the literature on the association between ASD and offending. The integrated emotion systems model hypothesizes that deviant social behavior, such as violence, is the result of inhibited emotional development caused by dysfunction in the amygdala and other limbic system regions, like the hippocampus, hypothalamus, anterior cingulate cortex, insular cortex, and ventral striatum.... (More)
This chapter expresses that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a heterogeneous disorder where several neural networks are involved in producing the behavioral symptoms. Comorbidity in other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders is a hallmark of ASD. The chapter presents an overview of the clinical and neurobiological characteristics of ASD as well as the literature on the association between ASD and offending. The integrated emotion systems model hypothesizes that deviant social behavior, such as violence, is the result of inhibited emotional development caused by dysfunction in the amygdala and other limbic system regions, like the hippocampus, hypothalamus, anterior cingulate cortex, insular cortex, and ventral striatum. Importantly, a defendant with ASD most often lacks the ability to correctly imagine, interpret, or predict others' thoughts, feelings, or behaviors and they will therefore have difficulty in understanding the consequences of their own or others' actions and are unlikely to be aware of how their behavior is interpreted by others.
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- author
- Hofvander, Björn LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2018-02-15
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Amygdala, Autism spectrum disorder, Behavioral symptoms, Comorbidity, Emotional development, Ventral striatum, Vulnarable defendant
- host publication
- The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Forensic Neuroscience
- editor
- Beech, Anthony R. ; Carter, Adam J. ; Mann, Ruth E. and Rotshtein, Pia
- volume
- 1-2
- pages
- 27 pages
- publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85049815467
- ISBN
- 9781118650929
- 9781118650868
- DOI
- 10.1002/9781118650868.ch11
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 0e8c868c-bb25-4d48-8db2-8371587e1fd7
- date added to LUP
- 2018-07-31 09:54:19
- date last changed
- 2024-06-24 17:25:42
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