Julien Larregue

Hereditary

The Persistence of Biological Theories of Crime

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Since the 1990s, a growing number of criminal courts around the world have been using expert assessments based on behavioral genetics and neuroscience to evaluate the responsibility and dangerousness of offenders. Larregue examines what is at stake in the development of biosocial criminology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• New ed
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 151mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781503637764
• ISBN-10: 150363776X
• Artikelnr.: 67568178

Autorenporträt

Julien Larregue is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Université Laval.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Revival of Biocriminology
1. The Birth and Sociological Domination of Criminology in the United
States
2. The Structural Suffocation of the First Generation of Biosocial
Criminologists
3. The Turning Point of the 2000s: Institutionalizing Biosocial Criminology
4. The Scientific Heterogeneity of Biosocial Criminology
5. The Resilience of the Nature-Culture Debate
6. "Copernican Criminology": Producing Scientific Capital through
Controversy
7. The Programmed Obsolescence of Biosocial Criminology
Conclusion: Criminological Imagination in the Biosocial Era
Notes
Bibliography
Index