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No. Low IQ is just one effect. Low impulse control is most likely cause for criminality.

Neurological and Behavioral Consequences of Childhood Lead Exposure https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2689677/

>The underlying common pathway for all of these associations might be lead's adverse effects on executive functioning [19–21], resulting in poor impulse control.

Low impulse control in general seems to be one of the is the strongest predictors of criminal behaviour, whatever the cause.

sources:

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0093854806292299

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-9125.2000....




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