Genetics and Criminal Behavior
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Part of Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy
- Editors:
- David Wasserman, University of Maryland
- Robert Wachbroit, University of Maryland
- Date Published: January 2001
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521627283
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This volume brings together a group of essays by leading philosophers of science, ethicists, and legal scholars, commissioned for an important and controversial conference on genetics and crime. The essays address basic conceptual, methodological, and ethical issues raised by genetic research on criminal behavior but largely ignored in the public debate. They explore the complexities in tracing any genetic influence on criminal, violent, or antisocial behavior, the varieties of interpretation to which evidence of such influences is subject, and the relevance of such influences to the moral and legal appraisal of criminal conduct. The volume provides a critical overview of the assumptions, methods, and findings of recent behavioral genetics.
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- Date Published: January 2001
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521627283
- length: 348 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.51kg
- contains: 7 b/w illus. 12 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I:
1. Understanding the genetics of violence controversy Robert Wachbroit
2. Separating nature and nurture Elliott Sober
3. Genetic explanations of behavior Kenneth Schaffner
4. On the explanatory limits of behavioral genetics Kenneth Taylor
5. Degeneracy, criminal behavior and looping Ian Hacking
6. Genetic plans, genetic differences, and violence: some chief possibilities Allen Gibbard
Part II:
7. Crime, genes, and responsibility Marcia Baron
8. Genes, statistics, and desert Peter Van Inwagen
9. Genes, electrotransmitters, and free will Patricia Greenspan
10. Moral responsibility without free will Michael Slote
11. Strong genetic influence and the new 'optimism' Jorge Garcia
12. Genetic predispositions to violent and antisocial behavior: responsibility, character, and identity David Wasserman.
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