Hereditary: the persistence of biological theories of crime

"Since the 1990s, a growing number of criminal courts around the world have been using expert assessments based on behavioral genetics and neuroscience to evaluate the responsibility and dangerousness of offenders. Despite this rapid circulation, however, we still know very little about the sci...

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Main Author: Larregue, Julien (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California Stanford University Press [2024]
In:Year: 2024
Online Access: Cover (Verlag)
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Keywords:
Criminal Behavior > Genetic aspects
Criminal Behavior > Psychological aspects
Criminology > Philosophy
Sociobiology
Soziologie
Constitutional & administrative law
Crime & criminology
HISTORY / Social History
LAW / Science & Technology
Social Science / Criminology
Social & Cultural History
Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
Verbrechen und Kriminologie (Kriminalistik)
Wissenschafts- und Forschungsrecht, Recht der Universitäten
Biosocial Criminology
Historische Entwicklung
Biokriminologie
Usa
Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: Larregue, Julien: Hereditary. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2024. - 9781503637771
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Summary:"Since the 1990s, a growing number of criminal courts around the world have been using expert assessments based on behavioral genetics and neuroscience to evaluate the responsibility and dangerousness of offenders. Despite this rapid circulation, however, we still know very little about the scientific knowledge underlying these expert evaluations. Hereditary traces the historical development of biosocial criminology in the United States from the 1960s to the present, showing how the fate of this movement is intimately linked to that of the field of criminology as a whole. In claiming to identify the biological and environmental causes of so-called "antisocial" behaviors, biosocial criminologists are redefining the boundary between the normal and the pathological. Julien Larregue examines what is at stake in the development of biosocial criminology. Beyond the origins of delinquency, Larregue addresses the reconfiguration of expertise in contemporary societies, and in particular the territorial struggles between the medical and legal professions. For if the causes of crime are both biological and social, its treatment may call for medical as well as legal solutions"--
Item Description:Originally published in French under the title: Héréditaire : l'éternel retour des théories biologiques du crime
Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:viii, 243 Seiten Diagramme
ISBN:9781503636439
9781503637764