April 17, 2009
Biocriminology
The idea that a person's genes or hormones could lead to criminal behavior has long been out of favor and provokes hostility among most criminologists. Yet startling discoveries in genetics and neurology that have prompted a biological turn in other social sciences have also led to the emergence of a subfield in criminology.
The Background
Biocriminology, or biosocial criminology, emerges from the shadows of eugenics and social Darwinism, long condemned as pseudoscientific and
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