Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Ninth Edition, is a highly acclaimed textbook
offering a broad perspective on criminological theory. It provides students of criminology and …

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 …

Despite a large body of research demonstrating a clear and consistent relationship between
resting heart rate and antisocial behavior, little is understood about the relative influence on …

Multiple scientific disciplines have weighed in with different viewpoints regarding the origins
of criminal behavior among human beings. What is lacking, however, is a framework …

Corrections: A Critical Approach, 3rd edition confronts mass imprisonment in the United
States, a nation boasting the highest incarceration rate in the world. This statistic is all the …

A body of research has revealed that low self-control is one of the strongest and most
consistent predictors of antisocial behaviors. As a result, there is great interest in identifying …

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 …

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 …

As the study of cybercrime has evolved, researchers have explored how to best define the
term. To date, no universal definition of cybercrime has been developed. In this chapter …

In this article we describe how the ascendency of biosocial criminology challenges the
“sacred values” of the discipline, values that have in the past elevated the professional …