Criminal Brain Understanding Biological Theories of Crime

Name: Criminal Brain Understanding Biological Theories of Crime
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ISBN: 9780814776148

ISBN-10: 0814776140

ISBN-13: 9780814776148

Edition: 2008

Authors: Nicole Rafter

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The Criminal Brain will have an important impact on social, political, and moral debates as biological criminology becomes increasingly prominent in coming years. --Simon A. Cole, author of Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification What is the relationship between criminality and biology? Nineteenth-century phrenologists insisted that criminality was innate, a trait inherent in the offenders 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…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 10/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Nicole Rafter is Professor and Senior Research Fellow in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University and author of many books, including The Criminal Brain: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime .



List of Illustrations


Preface



Introduction: Crime, History, Science



Biological Theories in the 19th Century



Moral Insanity and the Origins of Criminology



Phrenology: The Abnormal Brain



Criminal Anthropology: The Atavistic Brain



Evolutionary Theories: The Degenerate Brain



Biological Theories in the 20th Century



Stupidity Theories: The Backward Brain



Constitutional Theory: Bodytypes and Criminality



Criminology's Darkest Hour: Biocriminology in Nazi Germany



Contemporary Biocriminology



Biological Theories in the 21st Century



A Criminology for the 21st Century


Notes


References


Index


About the Author