ain that is compounded by drug use. Alcohol ingestion by a violent individual facilitates the commission of a crime (Diaz, pp. 132-133).
Epilepsy is also a contributing factor predisposing to the occurrence of violent crimes; it is a common symptom occurring in nearly 5 percent to 7 percent of all severe injuries. Temporal lobe epilepsy can be triggered by the development of temporal lobe contusions or scars resulting from severe TBI. The temporal lobes are in direct contact with the floor of the skull which is frequently the recipient of direct contusions. The contusions result from movement of the brain inside the skull when it is struck over the temporal lobe, or from the arrested forward motion of the brain when the back of the head hits a flat surface and results in a counter-coup injury. TBI may therefore be a proximate causal factor of a violent crime if it is linked to psychomotor epilepsy (Diaz, p. 133).
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