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There is a proportionally large population of brain-damaged and mentally ill persons within the prison system (Williams et al

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There is a proportionally large population of brain-damaged and mentally ill persons within the prison system (Williams et al., 2010a, 2010b). Even persons without brain damage may show brain abnormalities that may contribute to their violent offending. Given that we describe anti-social patients with vmPFC damage as suffering from pseudopsychopathy with an associated redeeming lack of culpability, to what extent should we confer the same label on some prisoners, and on what basis?