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Nicole Rafter

Criminal Brain

Understanding Biological Theories of Crime

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What is the relationship between criminality and biology? Nineteenth-century phrenologists insisted that criminality was innate, a trait inherent in the offender's brain matter. While they were eventually repudiated as pseudo-scientists and self-deluded charlatans, 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 for theft, violence, and sexual deviance. If that is so, we may soon confront proposals for genetically modifying at risk fetuses or doctoring up criminals so thei… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8147-7656-8
  • EAN: 9780814776568
  • Produktnummer: 24888438
  • Verlag: NYU Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
  • Seitenangabe: 352 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 4'431 KB

Über den Autor


Nicole Rafter was ProfessorEmeritus of Criminology at Northeastern University. Her publications include The Crime of All Crimes: Toward aCriminology of Genocide, The Criminal Brain: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime, and, withMichelle Brown, Criminology Goes to theMovies. In 2009,Rafter was awarded the Sutherland Award by the American Society of Criminologyfor outstanding contributions to the discipline.

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