Boca Raton, FL: Simon Fraser Univ.Ī useful overview of the biosocial perspective of the etiology of criminal behavior focusing on genetic factors as well as the structure and functioning of the brain.ĭeLisi, M., and Kevin M. Biological influences on criminal behavior. See also Lombroso-Ferrero 1972.Īnderson, Gail. Pinker 2011 is a controversial text that outlines nature theories and uses them as evidence for declining rates of violence in modern times. Anderson 2007 and Walsh and Ellis 2007 present overviews and integrated biosocial approaches in criminology. Fishbein 2004 provides a summation of not only the science but also treatment and prevention practices grounded in nature theories. Modern biosocial approaches of life-course theory and the development of deviant behavior can be found in Wright, et al. Moffitt 1993 presents the author’s classic developmental theory, which is based on a biosocial approach. Wilson and Herrnstein 1985 presents the early beginnings and approaches of biosocial theory. Nature theories assert that the etiology of criminal behavior is biologically based in genetic inheritance and the structure and functions of people’s brains and other psychological responses. Nonetheless, tension between those who view crime as the product of “nature” and those who favor “nurture” remains. Because many scholars now view criminal behavior as the product of nature and nurture, many studies now exist that attempt to account for both processes. Moreover, much contemporary biological theorizing examines the development of individuals across the life-course as well as issues within the life-course, such as the stability of behavior. Unlike early biological theories of crime, the new “biosocial” criminology seeks to understand the various ways biological and environmental variables work together to cause problem behavior. Nonetheless, recent advances in the biological sciences have again challenged dominant social views of crime. Sutherland’s view became broadly accepted, which led to the virtual elimination of biological theorizing in criminology from the 1940s until today. Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck, however, argued that the causes of crime were varied and multifaceted-and included biological factors. Sutherland, for example, argued that crime was the result of differential socialization and was not caused by individual, heritable factors. Various sociological views of crime became widely accepted among scholars as biological theories fell out of favor. Durkheim, Weber, and Marx, for example, each located the causes of crime not in individual pathologies but in the way societies were organized.
The advent of sociology, however, challenged these dominant explanations.
Beginning with the early work of Lombroso’s Criminal Man, biological influences were dominant for much of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Early biological theories of crime were strongly influenced by Darwinian views of inheritance and natural selection and tended to ignore or downplay environmental influences. On top of that, you’ll discover the shocking battle to become Russia’s most prolific killer and the German monster who terrorised a community for years.The nature/nurture debate has raged for decades, both within and outside of criminology. Packed with interviews with the killers, crime scene photos, case histories, court testimonies and much more, the world’s most notorious murderers are featured within these pages, from American psychos such as Ted Bundy, Edmund Kemper, Gary Ridgway and Dennis Rader to British butchers including Peter Sutcliffe, Harold Shipman, Fred West and Kenneth Erskine. Part of what makes serial killers so compelling is trying to understand what leads people to carry out such terrible acts is it nature or nurture? What must have happened in their lives to lead them to this point? Why do they do it? What satisfaction do they get? And just how do they evade capture for long enough to kill multiple victims, in some cases running into the hundreds? In this book you’ll find answers to some of these questions, and discover the gruesome details of their most evil acts. Committing crimes of unspeakable horror, for the vast majority of us it’s impossible to comprehend what would lead our fellow men and women to undertake such harrowing acts, often against total strangers and innocent victims. As depraved as it is fascinating, the murky world of the serial killer has captivated us for centuries.
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