The Criminal Brain: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime

by Nicole Rafter

Book Overview

What is the relationship between criminality and biology? Nineteenth-century phrenologists insisted that criminality was innate, a trait inherent in the offender's brain matter. While they were eventually repudiated as pseudo-scientists and self-deluded charlatans, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814776140
• ISBN13: 9780814776148
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.9"