Biological Influences on Criminal Behavior, Second Edition is fully updated to include recent
research, studies, and publications examining the integration of the biological view with …

Biosocial criminology is an emerging perspective that highlights the interdependence
between genetic and environmental factors in the etiology of antisocial behaviors. However …

For several decades, mainstream criminology has been dominated by sociological and
political perspectives. Although findings from these fields must not be discarded or …

The Nurture Versus Biosocial Debate in Criminology: On the Origins of Criminal Behavior
and Criminality takes a contemporary approach to address the sociological and the …

Purpose Major advances in the fields of biology, genetics, neuroscience, and psychiatry
have shown that many human behaviors are impacted by factors other than social …

The origins of antisocial behavior have been studied from multiple vantage points including
sociological, psychological, and biological perspectives, all of which have competed …

In 1977, renowned criminologist C. Ray Jeffery wrote that criminology should have dropped
the major sociological theories of crime “twenty years ago”(now 40-plus years ago) in favor …

R ecognition is increasing that biological processes are at some level implicated in the
development of criminal behavior. There is certainly debate about the precise contribution of …

There is a growing literature on biological explanations of antisocial and criminal behavior.
This paper provides a selective review of three specific biological factors–psychophysiology …

One of the most hotly debated questions in the scientific arena has centered on whether
criminal behavior has a genetic basis. Although it has been previously argued that genetics …