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Nicole Rafter

The Criminal Brain, Second Edition

Understanding Biological Theories of Crime

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A lively, up-to-date overview of the newest research in biosocial criminology What is the relationship between criminality and biology? Nineteenth-century phrenologists insisted that criminality was innate, inherent in the offender's brain matter. While they were eventually repudiated as pseudo-scientists, today the pendulum has swung back. Both criminologists and biologists have begun to speak of a tantalizing but disturbing possibility: that criminality may be inherited as a set of genetic deficits that place one at risk to commit theft, violence, or acts of sexual deviance. But what do these new theories really assert? Are they as dangerou… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Posick, Chad / Rocque, Michael
  • ISBN: 978-1-4798-9469-7
  • EAN: 9781479894697
  • Produktnummer: 19843044
  • Verlag: New York University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 416 S.
  • Masse: H15.5 cm x B23.0 cm x D2.8 cm 600 g
  • Gewicht: 600
  • Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

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Nicole Rafter (Author) Nicole Rafter was Professor Emeritus of Criminology at Northeastern University. Her publications include The Crime of All Crimes: Toward a Criminology of Genocide, The Criminal Brain: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime, and, with Michelle Brown, Criminology Goes to the Movies. In 2009, Rafter was awarded the Sutherland Award by the American Society of Criminologyfor outstanding contributions to the discipline.Chad Posick (Author) Chad Posick is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia Southern University.Michael Rocque (Author) Michael Rocque is Assistant Professor in the Bates Department of Sociology and the Senior Research Advisor for the Maine Department of Corrections.

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