美国神经学家达马索等人新近的研究成果表明，在幼小的时候有过脑额叶损伤的人，会导致“脑罗盘”功能混乱，难以学习社会行为规范，以致于分不清行为的是非，长大之后容易表现出违法犯罪行为。这种关于犯罪原因的神经病理学观点，为如何对这类犯罪人员量刑和如何教育他们提出了一些有待研究的新课题。 Recent studies by the American neurologist Damaso et al. Show that people who have had frontal lobe damage at a young age can cause confusion in the functioning of the “brain compass” and make it difficult to learn social norms so that they can not distinguish behaviors Right and wrong, grow up easily demonstrate criminal acts. This neuropathological view on the causes of crime presents new topics to be studied on how to impose sentences on such criminals and how to educate them.