The Nature and Nurture of Antisocial Outcomes (Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship)

"Kevin Beaver introduces the reader to biosocial criminology, including the ways in which genes and the environment combine together to produce different antisocial outcomes. He then proceeds to provide an empirical examination of the genetic underpinnings to criminal behaviors by analyzing data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). The results of the analyses provide some evidence indicating that antisocial phenotypes are due to interactions between genetic and environmental factors. Beaver concludes with a call for criminologists and other social scientists to adopt a biosocial perspective to the study of human behavior."--BOOK JACKET TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 6 1. The Biosocial Underpinnings to Behavior......Page 10 2. The Dopaminergic and Serotonergic Systems......Page 42 3. The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health......Page 66 4. The Gene X Environment Basis to Antisocial Phenotypes......Page 90 5. Conclusion......Page 146 Appendix......Page 156 References......Page 160 M......Page 188 S......Page 189 Description based on print version record.