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  1. Sep 1, 2009 · The Criminal Brain: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime. Based on: by Nicole Rafter; New York, New York University Press, 2008, 317 pages, $72 hardcover, $24 softcover. A picture can paint a thousand words. A CT scan or an MRI can lead a jury in a criminal trial to a conclusion of brain dysfunction and exculpability, even if the ...

  2. Jan 1, 2017 · PDF | Crime is not as simple as we think it is. It is a very complex phenomenon that changes across time and culture. ... psychology, and biology, and the behavior to be explained is typically ...

  3. In The Criminal Brain, well-known criminologist Nicole Rafter traces the sometimes violent history of these criminological theories and provides an introduction to current biological theories of ...

  4. Between the 1950s and the 1980s, when a second biological wave emerged in criminology, genetic/neuroscientific researchers detached themselves from the old criminal biology. Their investigations into crime and violence were based on a different concept of the brain, which was now understood as malleable and flexible, and they had new ideas about how it interacted with the environment.

    • Felix Schirmann
  5. CHAPTER 3. iological Explanations of Criminal BehaviourAbstract This chapter provides a historical and sociological overview of the biological ex. lanations for violent and criminal behaviour. It starts with a detailed description of the seminal work by Cesare Lombroso (nineteenth century) and highlights the risks of biological determinism and ...

    • Helena Machado, Rafaela Granja
    • 2020
  6. the biological factors that cause crime. This chapter will first outline the evidence for agenetic predisposition to crime. If genetic factors are indeed involved, then there has to be some biological basis to crime (although it should also be made clear that environmental factors in addition give rise to biological risk factors for crime).

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