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Beaver introduces the reader to biosocial criminology, including the ways in which genes and the environment combine together to produce different antisocial outcomes. He then proceeds to provide an empirical examination of the genetic underpinnings to criminal behaviors by analyzing data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). The results of the analyses provide some evidence indicating that antisocial phenotypes are due to interactions between genetic and environmental factors. Beaver concludes with a call for criminologists and other social scientists t
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This book facilitates an open and honest debate about criminal behaviour between the more traditional criminologists who focus primarily on environmental factors and contemporary biosocial criminologists who examine the interplay between biology/genetics and environmental factors. It provides a contemporary approach by bringing to the table a new debate: the nurture vs. biosocial debate.
Criminal behavior --- Criminal psychology. --- Crime --- Criminal sociology --- Criminology --- Sociology of crime --- Sociology --- Criminal psychiatry --- Criminals --- Psychology, Criminal --- Criminal anthropology --- Psychology --- Psychology, Pathological --- Behavior genetics --- Criminal psychology --- Deviant behavior --- Physiological aspects. --- Genetic aspects. --- Sociological aspects. --- Sociological aspects
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