Ideal for use, either as a second text in a standard criminology course, or for a discrete course on biosocial perspectives, this book of original chapters breaks new and important ground for ways today's criminologists need to think more broadly about the crime problem.

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part Ⅰ An Overview of the B iosocial Approach

1 Introduction to Biosocial Criminology

Anthony Walsh and Kevin M. Beaver

2 Criminal Behavior from Heritability to Epigenetics: How Genetics Clarifies the Role of the Environment

Anthony Walsh

3 Molecular Genetics and Crime

Kevin M. Beaver

4 The Ghost in the Machine and Criminal Behavior:Criminology for the 21 st Century

John Paul Wright, Danielle Boisvert,Kim Dietrich, and M. Douglas Ris

5 Evolutionary Psychology and Crime

Satoshi Kanazawa

Part Ⅱ Major Correlates of Crime

6 Gender and Crime: An Evolutionary Perspective

Anne Campbell

7 Inconvenient Truths: Science, Race, and Crime

John Paul Wright

8 Crazy by Design: A Biosocial Approach to the Age-Crime Curve

Anthony Walsh

9 Substance Abuse and Crime: Biosocial Foundations

Michael G. Vaughn

10 Testosterone and Violence among Young Men

Allan Mazur

Part Ⅲ Serious Violent Criminals and Biosocial Approaches to Crime Prevention

11 Neuroscience and the Holy Grail: Genetics and Career Criminality

Ma tt DeL isi

12 Psychopathy

Richard R Wiebe

13 No Longer Taboo: Crime Prevention Implications of Biosocial Criminology

Matthew Robinson

Glossary/Index