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The Nurture Versus Biosocial Debate in Criminology: On the Origins of Criminal Behavior and Criminality takes a contemporary approach to address the sociological and the biological positions of human behavior by allowing preeminent scholars in criminology to speak to the effects of each on a range of topics. The text aims to facilitate an open and honest debate between the more traditional criminologists who focus primarily on environmental factors and contemporary biosocial criminologists who examine the interplay between biology/genetics and environmental factors.
Chapter 24: The Puzzling Relationship Between Age and Criminal Behavior: A Biosocial Critique of the Criminological Status Quo
The Puzzling Relationship Between Age and Criminal Behavior: A Biosocial Critique of the Criminological Status Quo
The age-crime curve is perhaps the best known yet least understood finding in the criminological literature (Shulman, Steinberg, & Piquero, 2013; Sweeten, Piquero, & Steinberg, 2013). The association has been a mainstay of criminological research for more than 200 years with the same general pattern emerging across both time and space (Farrington, 1986). Thus, some have been tempted to conclude that the relationship between age and crime is a just-so relationship; one that ...
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