Born to Crime: The Genetic Causes of Criminal Behavior

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Born To Crime makes a clear and compelling case for the intellectual and practical significance of the theory of the born criminal and its varies expressions in the culture and practice of criminal justice in modern Italy. However, as Gibson's very useful book convinces us, a belief that physical features reveal underlying pathologies of character, which criminal anthropology shared with racists, eugeuicists, and antisemites all over the industrialized world in the first half of the twentieth century, prepared the way for far more sinister consequences.-Journal of Modern History
The present work reviews some of the recent evidence supporting the proposition that genetic or biochemical factors critically influence crime-related behavior. In the introductory chapters, Taylor disassociates present biogenic research from discredited, earlier approaches ... and outlines a sociobiological understanding of evolution. Individual chapters then consider the apparent roots of various kinds of deviant behavior....In the final chapters, Taylor discusses some admittedly controversial implications of a biogenic perspective for criminal justice policy.... The book is written in a clear, very accessible style.-Choice
"Born To Crime makes a clear and compelling case for the intellectual and practical significance of the theory of the born criminal and its varies expressions in the culture and practice of criminal justice in modern Italy. However, as Gibson's very useful book convinces us, a belief that physical features reveal underlying pathologies of character, which criminal anthropology shared with racists, eugeuicists, and antisemites all over the industrialized world in the first half of the twentieth century, prepared the way for far more sinister consequences."-Journal of Modern History
"The present work reviews some of the recent evidence supporting the proposition that genetic or biochemical factors critically influence crime-related behavior. In the introductory chapters, Taylor disassociates present biogenic research from discredited, earlier approaches ... and outlines a sociobiological understanding of evolution. Individual chapters then consider the apparent roots of various kinds of deviant behavior....In the final chapters, Taylor discusses some admittedly controversial implications of a biogenic perspective for criminal justice policy.... The book is written in a clear, very accessible style."-Choice

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ylor /f Lawrence