Background Sexual frustration is a common experience for many people; it is one of the
biggest frustrations in some individuals' lives; and it has been cited as a cause of immoral …

What is the relationship between criminality and biology? Nineteenth-century phrenologists
insisted that criminality was innate, a trait inherent in the offender's brain matter. While they …

Longitudinal investigations of associations between health and offending are rare. Studies
which have investigated this relationship principally focus on mental health within samples …

Written by two of the most prominent criminologists in the field, Race and Crime, 6th Edition
takes an incisive look at the intersection of race and ethnicity and the criminal justice system …

Purpose Many criminological scholars explore the social causes of crime while giving little
consideration to the possibility that genetic factors underlie the observed associations …

OBJECTIVE: In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, criminological efforts to prevent or
reduce crime were centered on addressing presumed biological causes of crime. Most of …

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 …

Crime poses a major burden for society. The heterogeneous nature of criminal behavior
makes it difficult to unravel its causes. Relatively little research has been conducted on the …

Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime, Fourth Edition, is the only text to look at the
array of mainstream and unconventional explanations for crime as they relate to racial and …

As criminology has become more interdisciplinary in recent years, biosocial criminology has
earned a place at the table. Although this perspective comes in many forms, one important …