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The Ashgate research companion to biosocial theories of crime

Author: Kevin M Beaver; Anthony Walsh
Publisher: Farnham ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, ©2011.
Series: Ashgate research companion.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This work spans multiple levels of analysis and thus multiple disciplines, offering an essential overview of the current state of research in the field. The authors are experts in a variety of  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Kevin M Beaver; Anthony Walsh
ISBN: 9781409408437 1409408434 9781409408444 1409408442
OCLC Number: 713567550
Description: xii, 447 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents: Biosocial criminology / Kevin M. Beaver and Anthony Walsh --
Biosocial interactions and correlates of crime / Anna Rudo-Hutt ... [et. al.] --
The relationship between low resting heart rate and antisocial behavior: correlation or causation? / Tod A. Armstrong --
The genetics of criminality and delinquency / Lisabeth Fisher DiLalla and Sufna Gheyara --
Molecular genetics and crime / John Pual Wright, Kristan Moore, and Jamie Newsome --
Gene x environment interactions in antisocial behavior / Christopher J. Ferguson --
Neurotransmitters: indirect molecular invitations to aggression / Raymond E. Collins --
The limbic system and crime / Matt DeLisi --
Neurobiological perspectives of brain vulnerability in pathways to violence over the life course / Denise Paquette Boots --
The neuroscientific basis of situational action theory / Kyle Treiber The independence of criminological "predictor" variables: a good deal of concerns and some answers from behavioral genetic research / H. Harrington cleveland, Charles Bekman, and Yao Zheng --
Birth complications and the development of criminality: a biosocial perspective / Stephen G. Tibbetts --
Presaging problem behavior: the mutality of child temperament, parenting, and family environments from gestation to age three / Matt DeLisi and Michael G. Vaughn --
Social class and criminal behavior through a biosocial lens / Anthony Walsh and David G. Mueller --
Women's avoidance of rape: an evolutionary psychological perspective / William F. McKibbin and Todd K. Shackelford --
The search for human rape and anti-rape adaptations: ten years after A Natural history of rape / Ryan M. Ellsworth and Craig T. Palmer --
The nature and utility of low self-control / Richard P. Wiebe --
Biosocial treatment and prevention strategies / Michael G. Vaughn and Ralph Groom --
From petri dish to public policy: a discussion of the complications of biosocial research in the criminal justice arena / Joseph Rukus and Chris L. Gibson.
Series Title: Ashgate research companion.
Responsibility: [edited] by Kevin M. Beaver and Anthony Walsh.
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