Biosocial Criminology: New Directions in Theory and Research

Designed to bring criminology into the 21st century by showing how leading criminologists have integrated aspects of the biological sciences into their discipline. This book covers behavior and molecular genetics, epigenetics, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience, and apply them to various correlates of crime such as age, race, and gender.

Ideal for use, either as a second text in a standard criminology course, or for a discrete course on biosocial perspectives, this book of original chapters breaks new and important ground for ways today's criminologists need to think more broadly about the crime problem.

Preface xxx Part I. Overview of the Biosocial Approach Chapter 1 Introduction to Biosocial Criminology xxx Anthony Walsh and Kevin M. Beaver Chapter 2 Criminal Behavior from Heritability to Epigenetics:Criminology for the 21st Century xxx John Paul Wright Danielle Boisvert, Kim Dietrich, and M. Douglas Ris Chapter 5 Evolutionary Psychology and Crime xxx Satoshi Kanazawa Part II. Applications to Important Correlates of Crime Chapter 6 Gender and Crime: An Evolutionary Perspective xxx Anne Campbell Chapter 7 Inconvenient Truths: Science, Race and Crime xxx John Paul Wright Chapter 8 Crazy by Design: A Biosocial Approach to the Age-Crime Curve xxx Anthony Walsh Chapter 9 Substance Abus and Crime: Biosocial Foundations xxx Michael G. Vaughn Chapter 10 Testosterone and Violence among Young Men xxx Allan Mazur Part III. Serious Violent Criminals Chapter 11 Neuroscience and the Holy Grail: Genetics and Career Criminality xxx Matt DeLisi Chapter 12 Psychopathy xxx Richard P. Wiebe Part IV. A Biosocial Approach to Crime Prevention Chapter 13 No Longer Taboo: Crime Prevention Implications of Biosocial Criminology xxx Matthew Robinson Glossary / How Genetics Clarifies the Role of the Environment xxx Anthony Walsh Chapter 3 Molecula Genetics and Crime xxx Kevin M. Beaver Chapter 4 The Ghost in the Machine and Criminal Behavior.