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Heredity, crime, and the killing‐the‐bearer‐of‐bad‐news syndrome: a reply to brennan and mednick *
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Brennan and Mednick as mentioned in this paper found fault in this issue of the journal with a review of the literature on heredity and crime conducted by Walters and White 1989 and argued that the review is lacking in specificity and that in sections in which the criticisms are explicit the reviewers draw erroneous conclusions.Abstract:
Brennan and Mednick find fault in this issue of the journal with a review of the literature on heredity and crime conducted by Walters and White 1989. Brennan and Mednick argue that the review is lacking in specificity and that in sections in which the criticisms are explicit the reviewers draw erroneous conclusions. The relative merits of these two points are examined in this response to Brennan and Mednick's commentary.read more
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A meta‐analysis of the gene‐crime relationship*
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the statistical technique of meta-analysis to probe the putative association between heredity and crime and found a low-moderate correlation between these two variables.
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Genetic influences in criminal convictions: evidence from an adoption cohort
TL;DR: The possibility that genetic factors are among the causes of criminal behavior was tested by comparing court convictions of 14,427 adoptees with those of their biological and adoptive parents, and there was no statistically significant correlation between adoptee and adoptive parent court convictions.
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Psychopathology in Adopted-Away Offspring of Biologic Parents With Antisocial Behavior
TL;DR: Evidence is presented for a genetic factor in adoptee antisocial behavior and for the following as "spectrum" conditions: hysteria in adult females (Briquet's syndrome) or multiple somatic complaints without medical explanation in younger female subjects and mood swings possibly associated with the symptom of audible thoughts.
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Social Class and Crime in an Adoption Cohort
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Heredity and crime: bad genes or bad research?*
Glenn D. Walters,Thomas W. White +1 more
TL;DR: A review of the research literature on the heritability of criminal behavior can be found in this paper, where Rowe argues that genetic factors have been largely ignored by personality psychologists because they run counter to the zeitgeist, which holds that environmental factors are preeminent in personality development.