Genetics and criminal behavior / edited by David Wasserman, Robert Wachbroit
Imprint
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2001
Edition
1st ed
Descript
xi, 335 p. ; 23 cm
CONTENT
Introduction: methods, meanings, and morals -- Understanding the genetics-of violence controversy -- Separating nature and nature -- Genetic explanations of behavior: of worms, flies, and men -- On the explanatory limits of behavioral genetics -- Degeneracy, criminal behavior, and looping -- Genetic plans, genetic differences, and violence: some chief possibilities -- Crime, genes, and responsibility -- Genes, statistics, and desert -- Genes, electrotransmitters, and free will -- Moral responsibility without free will -- Strong genetic influence and the new "optimism" -- Genetic predispositions to violent and antisocial behavior: responsibility, character, and identity