Biological Perspectives in Criminology

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Expanding Our Thinking on Theorizing Criminology and Criminal Justice? The Place of Evolutionary Perspectives in Integrative Criminological Theory

Some 30 years after integrative theory was first introduced to criminology as an explicit attempt to move beyond mono-disciplinary thinking (Jeffrey, 1978; Johnson, 1979; Elliott, Agerton, & Canter, 1979; Elliott, Huizinger & Ageton, 1985; Colvin & Pauly, 1983; Hawkins & Weis, 1985; Pearson & Weiner, 1985; Messner, Krohn, & Liska, 1989; Akers, 1994; Hagan, 1989), it is surprising that criminolo...

Crime, race, and morals : the development of criminology in Peru 1890-1930

Criminology arrived in Peru by the late 1880s, and with it the promise of both scientific explanations of crime and effective policies of crime control. As in Europe, Peruvian criminologists also debated the relative importance of biological and social factors in explaining crime tendencies. This article reviews the adoption and early developments of positivist criminology in Peru. It shows tha...

Human Nature Review

Both Matthew Robinson's Why Crime? and Robert Agnew's Why do Criminals Offend? begin by asking the same question and both attempt to answer it by offering us a new theory. These books are the latest additions to a growing number of monographs published in the last decade taking an integrative biosocial view of criminology (see, for instance, Fishbein, 2001; Rowe, 2002;Walsh, 2002; Walsh & Ellis...