PURPOSE: The criminal career paradigm is a major research focus in criminology, and the
current state-of-the-art review explicates research published between 2000 and 2011 …

A large number of candidate gene studies for aggression and violence have been
conducted. Successful identification of associations between genetic markers and …

Background In a seminal study of gene-environment interaction, childhood maltreatment
predicted antisocial behavior more strongly in male subjects carrying an MAOA promoter …

Importance Antisocial behavior (ASB) places a large burden on perpetrators, survivors, and
society. Twin studies indicate that half of the variation in this trait is genetic. Specific causal …

The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) address three types of aggression: frustrative non‐
reward, defensive aggression and offensive/proactive aggression. This review sought to …

This book provides a sociological perspective on crime and criminal justice by treating social
structure and social inequality as central themes in the study of crime—and major factors in …

“Making the Mexican Diabetic presents a finely-honed ethnography. Montoya is particularly
attuned to the sensitivity and conundrums surrounding the use of DNA drawn from a …

Unfortunately, the nature‐versus‐nurture debate continues in criminology. Over the past 5
years, the number of heritability studies in criminology has surged. These studies invariably …

Sociogenomics has rapidly become one of the trendiest sciences of the new millennium.
Practitioners view human nature and life outcomes as the result of genetic and social factors …

The ability to accurately predict violence and other forms of serious antisocial behavior
would provide important societal benefits, and there is substantial enthusiasm for the …