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The Criminal Brain, Second Edition: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime
Nicole Rafter
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Description for The Criminal Brain, Second Edition: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 28. Weight in Grams: 626.
A lively, up-to-date overview of the newest research in biosocial criminology What is the relationship between criminality and biology? Nineteenth-century phrenologists insisted that criminality was innate, inherent in the offender's brain matter. While they were eventually repudiated as pseudo-scientists, 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 to commit theft, violence, or acts of sexual deviance. But what do these new theories really assert? Are they as dangerous as their forerunners, ... Read more
A lively, up-to-date overview of the newest research in biosocial criminology What is the relationship between criminality and biology? Nineteenth-century phrenologists insisted that criminality was innate, inherent in the offender's brain matter. While they were eventually repudiated as pseudo-scientists, 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 to commit theft, violence, or acts of sexual deviance. But what do these new theories really assert? Are they as dangerous as their forerunners, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
NYU Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479894697
SKU
V9781479894697
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About Nicole Rafter
Nicole Rafter was Professor Emeritus of Criminology at Northeastern University. Her publications include The Crime of All Crimes: Toward a Criminology of Genocide, The Criminal Brain: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime, and, with Michelle Brown, Criminology Goes to the Movies. In 2009, Rafter was awarded the Sutherland Award by the American Society of Criminology ... Read more
Reviews for The Criminal Brain, Second Edition: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime
NicoleRafter, Chad Posick, and Michael Rocque impressively document the genealogy ofbiological ideas in criminology. They show that criminology must take newbiological ideas seriously and contextualize sociologically both the ideas andthe phenomena in which biologists engage. Publication of this second expandededition indicates that The Criminal Brainis receiving the attention it deserves. -Joachim J. Savelsberg,author, Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human ... Read more