Imagine for a moment that a murderer argued that, as a man, he was genetically programmed to be more violent than women - and that, as a result, he should get a lighter sentence than a woman would for the same crime. Well, that's the exact same argument we have here. Asperger's does not make you commit crimes, nor does it impede your understanding of the law. So why should it be a mitigating factor when you do decide to commit crimes?

You said exactly what I wanted to say. Someone with Asberger's still KNOWS what they adid was a crime. The 'disease' didn't CAUSE them to commit the crime.....it just causes then to not give a dang about it when they get caught and feel no empathy for the victims.

I hate the 'I'm sick in the head defence.' If you're that much of a risk, lock em all up before they cause a problem.

It's a very, very basic aspect of criminal law, which is respected across all jurisdictions (at least in the more "developed" world). In the cited example, the man's faculty of conscious decisions is significantly restrained while the woman's is not, therefore, he cannot bear the same legal consequences (i.e. in extenso the ability to make conscious decisions is non-existent or is substantially limited).

A separate issue is that many guys, with Asperger's or not, feel like hacking into U.S. computers and obsession about UFO landings is easily explainable even in healthy, curious people. It's no great secret that the U.S. gov has covered up evidence of UFO landings and that proofs that much more developed civilisations than ours do exist (as other govs have). The challenge is ...hmm...not to get caught (hmm, I'm kidding).