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Dopamine regulates "seeking" behavior. One can direct their "seeking" to good things (achievement of something that benefits your family or community) or bad things (drug induced highs, money at all costs).

Probably educating people on how they are wired to seek things (a good drive when you are talking about going out and securing food/resources) and how to direct that towards healthy pursuits instead of unhealthy ones would go a long way.

Lots of pharmaceuticals can regulate dopamine in various ways too. The issue as it relates to impulsivity seems to be caused by a combination of dopamine driven seeking behavior and more primal parts of the brain hijacking decision making.

It is the combination of primal parts of the brain doing decision making with the brain's propensity for seeking that causes negative impulsivity, so that could be aided by increasing gray matter (meditation) and regulating dopamine (healthy seeking) but you can only do so much.

It seems like so much "crime" is really impulsivity, and so I often have thought about ways you can reduce impulsivity, but it always seems to come at the cost of considerably altering how someone's brain works, which not everyone is open to.