Irreducibly social: Why biocriminology’s ontoepistemology is incompatible with the social reality of crime

Professing interactionist bio + social terminology, contemporary biocriminology asserts a break from its biologically essentialist past. Assurances notwithstanding, whether biocriminology has undergone a decisive paradigm shift rejecting notions of biological criminals and bad brains remains uncerta...

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Main Author: Burt, Callie Harbin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: Theoretical criminology
Year: 2023, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 85-104
Online Access: Presumably Free Access
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Keywords:
Social Constructionism
Reductionism
Genetics
biological essentialism
Biocriminology