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The nature and nurture of antisocial outcomes / Kevin M. Beaver.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beaver, Kevin M.
- Series:
- Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
- Criminal justice
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminology.
- Criminal behavior--Physiological aspects.
- Criminal behavior.
- Criminal behavior--Genetic aspects.
- Human beings--Effect of environment on.
- Human beings.
- Sociobiology.
- Environmental psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (188 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Beaver introduces the reader to biosocial criminology, including the ways in which genes and the environment combine together to produce different antisocial outcomes. He then proceeds to provide an empirical examination of the genetic underpinnings to criminal behaviors by analyzing data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). The results of the analyses provide some evidence indicating that antisocial phenotypes are due to interactions between genetic and environmental factors. Beaver concludes with a call for criminologists and other social scientists t
- Contents:
- The biosocial underpinnings to behavior
- The dopaminergic and serotonergic systems
- The national longitudinal study of adolescent health
- The gene X environment basis to antisocial phenotypes
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-178) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-59332-428-6
- OCLC:
- 535783056
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