This book offers a fresh perspective on the controversial topic of criminal and antisocial behavior. It synthesizes findings from behavioral and population genetics, evolutionary biology and criminology and presents the latest findings in twin studies, adoption cohort studies, molecular genetics and animal models for human aggression. Also included is a detailed analysis of the legal implications of genetics and crime research and strategies for rehabilitation.
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This book offers a fresh perspective on the controversial topic of criminal and antisocial behavior. It synthesizes findings from behavioral and population genetics, evolutionary biology and criminology and presents the latest findings in twin studies, adoption cohort studies, molecular genetics and animal models for human aggression. Also included is a detailed analysis of the legal implications of genetics and crime research and strategies for rehabilitation.
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New. 0471957194. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED--Choose us, for the information you need. --TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction: concepts of antisocial behaviour, of cause and of genetic influences 1 * Issues in the search for candidate genes in mice as potential animal models of human aggression 21 * Aggression from a developmental perspective: genes, environments and interactions 45 * A twin study of self-reported criminal behaviour 61 * Heterogeneity among juvenile antisocial behaviours: findings from the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioural Development 76 * Predisposition to criminality: Swedish adoption studies in retrospect 99 * Assessing the role of genetics in crime using adoption cohorts 115 * Direct analysis of candidate genes in impulsive behaviours 139 * MAOA deficiency and abnormal behaviour: perspectives on an association 155 * Serotonin in alcoholic violent offenders 168 * Evolutionary adaptationism: another biological approach to criminal and antisocial behaviour 183 * Chronic problems in understanding tribal violence and warfare 202 * The implications for responsibility of possible genetic factors in the explanation of violence 237 * Legal implications of genetics and crime research 248 * Concluding remarks 265 * Index of contributors 272 * Subject index 274. --DESCRIPTION: --Papers presented at the symposium held at the Ciba Foundation in London, February 14-16, 1995. Multidisciplinary research on the genetic contributions to criminal and antisocial behavior, for behavioral geneticists, theorists, neuroscientists, philosophers, and criminologists. --Criminal and antisocial behaviour threaten cooperative social organization, and each culture has developed methods to isolate and punish criminals. However, criminal behaviour has not been eliminated in any culture, and so it is rational to try to use scientific approaches to explain the origins and causes of criminal behaviour, and to suggest ways of preventing crime or rehabilitating offenders. There has been extensive research on environmental causes of criminal behaviour: this book examines the evidence for genetic contributions. Twin and adoption studies suggest that there may be genetic contributions to some criminal behaviours. The data are examined in detail in this book, which includes discussion of the methodological problems of disentangling genetic and environmental sources of variance in behaviour. In animals, aggression is commonly an appropriate response to environmental stimuli: data from the relevant animal studies of the inheritance of aggressiveness are included in the book. There have been reports suggesting neuropharmacological abnormalities in violent offenders. These represent potential underlying mechanisms whereby genetic influences could be mediated. The recent evidence regarding brain and, in particular, neurotransmitter abnormalities is discussed. A heritable tendency to behave in a particular way would have significant implications for criminology, particularly for rehabilitation strategies. Important issues also arise for moral philosophy. Separate chapters examine evolutionary and anthropological aspects of violence and warfare. The book is truly multidisciplinary and contains contributions from behavioural geneticists, population geneticists, evolutionary theorists, neuroscientists, philosophers and criminologists. --with a bonus offer--
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