RT Book
T1 Hereditary: the persistence of biological theories of crime
A1 Larregue, Julien
LA English
PP Stanford, California
PB Stanford University Press
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1853728489
AB "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"--
NO Originally published in French under the title: Héréditaire : l'éternel retour des théories biologiques du crime
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV6018
SN 978-1-5036-3643-9
SN 978-1-5036-3776-4
K1 Criminal Behavior : Genetic aspects
K1 Criminal Behavior : Psychological aspects
K1 Criminology : Philosophy
K1 Sociobiology
K1 Soziologie
K1 Constitutional & administrative law
K1 Crime & criminology
K1 HISTORY / Social History
K1 LAW / Science & Technology
K1 Social Science / Criminology
K1 Social & Cultural History
K1 Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
K1 Verbrechen und Kriminologie (Kriminalistik)
K1 Wissenschafts- und Forschungsrecht, Recht der Universitäten
K1 Biosocial Criminology
K1 Historische Entwicklung
K1 Biokriminologie
K1 Usa