brain activity predicts re-arrest

Why is it that people commit crimes, then they get out of jail and commit another crime and get themselves back into jail? Could science and biology have anything to do with the decisions criminals make? The science magazine states that there could be a biological reason to why people make poor decisions. The scientist magazine research and found that prisoners have a lower activity in a particular region of the brain while preforming computer-based decision making skills are more likely to get arrested again on release from prison. The prisoners that had a higher activity level in that region of the brain were less likely to get re-arrested than the prisoners with the low activity. (publish date, March, 25) the region of the brain that the neuroscientist were looking at was the cingulate cortex of the brain. This area of the brain has an impact on decision making, and motor control. The computer-base would test the prisoners with challenges that require quick decision making skills and they would record the inhibit impulsive reaction as they made quick decisions. The researchers then released the prisoners and then monitored them for the next four years and saw that the prisoners that tested a lower ACC activity were roughly twice as likely to get re-arrested than the prisoners with a higher ACC activity level. The result of this study has shown that it is possible that ACC activity level could be connected to cognitive levels. A higher ACC and cognitive level would reduce the prisoner from being  recidivism. The result of this study has shown that activity level in the cortex can predict if someone will get themselves re-arrested.