Genetics and Criminal Behavior (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 052162214X ISBN 13: 9780521622141

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Synopsis

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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Book Description

In this volume a group of leading philosophers address some of the basic conceptual, methodological and ethical issues raised by genetic research into criminal behavior, issues that have been largely ignored in the public debate on this subject. Advancing public discussion while clarifying the debate about genetic research and criminal behavior, this volume explains scientific controversies about behavioral genetics in lucid, non-technical terms.The volume will be of particular value to philosophers concerned with applied ethics (especially bioethics), behavioral geneticists, psychologists, legal theorists, and criminologists.

Review

'... the book is a good introduction to the state of play in this area of study ≥'. Practical Philosophy

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052162214X
• ISBN 13: 9780521622141
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 348
• Editor: Wasserman David, Wachbroit Robert