Biology And Crime

Author : David C. Rowe
Publisher : Roxbury Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781891487804
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biology and Crime written by David C. Rowe and published by Roxbury Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by internationally recognized behavioral geneticist, this book offers instructors and students a contemporary presentation of biological approaches to crime with a minimum of jargon. It profiles biological approaches to understanding why some people are criminals and others not.

Author : Adrian Raine
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307378845
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anatomy of Violence written by Adrian Raine and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2013 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provocative and timely: a pioneering neurocriminologist introduces the latest biological research into the causes of--and potential cures for--criminal behavior. With an 8-page full-color insert, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.

Author : Anthony Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135965943
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biology and Criminology written by Anthony Walsh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-03-17 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous criminologists have noted their dissatisfaction with the state of criminology. The need for a new paradigm for the 21st century is clear. However, many distrust biology as a factor in studies of criminal behavior, whether because of limited exposure or because the orientation of criminology in general has a propensity to see it as racist, classist, or at least illiberal. This innovative new book by noted criminologist Anthony Walsh dispels such fears, examining how information from the biological sciences strengthens criminology work and both complements and improves upon traditional theories of criminal behavior. With its reasoned case for biological science as a fundamental tool of the criminologist, Walsh's groundbreaking work will be required reading for all students and faculty within the field of criminology.

Author : Nicole Rafter
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479894699
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Criminal Brain, Second Edition written by Nicole Rafter and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively, up-to-date overview of the newest research in biosocial criminology What is the relationship between criminality and biology? Nineteenth-century phrenologists insisted that criminality was innate, inherent in the offender’s brain matter. While they were eventually repudiated as pseudo-scientists, today the pendulum has swung back. Both criminologists and biologists have begun to speak of a tantalizing but disturbing possibility: that criminality may be inherited as a set of genetic deficits that place one at risk to commit theft, violence, or acts of sexual deviance. But what do these new theories really assert? Are they as dangerous as their forerunners, which the Nazis and other eugenicists used to sterilize, incarcerate, and even execute thousands of supposed “born” criminals? How can we prepare for a future in which leaders may propose crime-control programs based on biology? In this second edition of The Criminal Brain, Nicole Rafter, Chad Posick, and Michael Rocque describe early biological theories of crime and provide a lively, up-to-date overview of the newest research in biosocial criminology. New chapters introduce the theories of the latter part of the 20th century; apply and critically assess current biosocial and evolutionary theories, the developments in neuro-imaging, and recent progressions in fields such as epigenetics; and finally, provide a vision for the future of criminology and crime policy from a biosocial perspective. The book is a careful, critical examination of each research approach and conclusion. Both compiling and analyzing the body of scholarship devoted to understanding the criminal brain, this volume serves as a condensed, accessible, and contemporary exploration of biological theories of crime and their everyday relevance.

Author : T.E. Moffitt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400927681
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biological Contributions to Crime Causation written by T.E. Moffitt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents reviews of the literature and reports of new findings from research into biological correlates of criminal behavior. The chapters are revised versions of talks given by participants in an Advanced Study Institute sponsored by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and held inCastelvecchio Pascoli in September, 1986. It is our second edited volume on biology and crime. The first book, The Causes of Cdme; New Biological Apwoaches, was published in 1987. In the preface to that book we described the regrettable hi. tory of the paeudobiological research into social problem. conducted by the Social Darwinists at the turn of the century. We requested that that unfortunate legacy not inhibit responsible and scientifically sound investigations of biological and psychological variables in criminology today. Evidence is mounting that showl that research limited to social and environmental vadables cannot explain the behavior of the minority of criminal offenders whose criminal careen begin in adolescence and develop into recidivistic and violent . . saults on society. Certainly these offenders are few, but epidemiological studies have found them to be responsible for an amount of crimes disproportionate to their small numbers. As few . . 5 % of males commit over 50% of criminal offenses. Intervention directed at these relatively few individuals could, if succes. ful, dramatically reduce our growing violent crime rate. The chapters in our earlier book showed that some biological variables do relate to this type of chronic offending.

Author : Nicole Hahn Rafter
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814776140
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Criminal Brain written by Nicole Hahn Rafter and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epidemic of mass rape in the former Yugoslavia has illustrated once again, and in particularly brutal fashion, the inextricable relationship between national politics, sexual politics, and body politics. The nexus of these three forces is highly charged in any culture, at any time in history, but especially so among cultures in which rapid, even cataclysmic, changes in material realities and national self-conceptions are eroding or overwhelming previously secure boundaries. The postcommunist moment in the so-called Second World--Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union--has dramatically exposed the opportunities and dangers that arise when the political, cultural, and economic foundations of a society are de- and then re-structured. Gender roles and relations, expressions of sexuality or attempts to recontain them, representations of the body, especially the female body, and the larger, cultural meanings it assumes, are particularly marked sites to witness the performance of complex national dramas of crisis and change. This groundbreaking volume turns its attention to the Second World, specifically to such subjects as the birth of the sex media and porn industry in Russia; Russian women and alcoholism; cinema in post-communist Hungary; patriotism and gender in Poland; sexual dissidence in Eastern Europe; and women in the former Yugoslavia. [ go to the Genders website ]

Author : Frank H. Marsh
Publisher : Anderson Publishing Company (OH)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biology, Crime, and Ethics written by Frank H. Marsh and published by Anderson Publishing Company (OH). This book was released on 1985 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume explore biological explanations for criminal behavior, the major theories supporting sociobiology, as well as those that challenge it.

Author : Clarence Ray Jeffery
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biology and Crime written by Clarence Ray Jeffery and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1979-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kevin M. Beaver
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409408442
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Biosocial Theories of Crime written by Kevin M. Beaver and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In response to exciting developments in genetics, neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, a number of criminologists have embraced the position that criminal behaviour is the product of biological, psychological, and sociological factors operating together in complex ways. They have come to realize that if they are to capture the dynamic nature of criminal behaviour then they must span multiple levels of analysis and thus multiple disciplines.

Author : Gail S. Anderson
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420043323
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biological Influences on Criminal Behavior written by Gail S. Anderson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In reviewing introductory texts available to criminologists, one is left with the impression that biological factors are irrelevant to the formulation of criminal behavior. Where biology is mentioned at all, it receives infinitesimal coverage. This dearth of attention could at one time be blamed on shoddy research and the legitimate fear that evide