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Biosocial Bases of Criminal Behavior

Year: 1978

Type: article

Abstract: This collection of articles had been put together shortly before its second author died suddenly in 1976. It reports on an exciting body of research, carried out in Scandinavia but supported by U.S. grants and performed in part by American and British scientists. These studies bear witness to the energy, inquisitiveness and versatility of the first author. He has personally tackled enough problems to have given five scientists, each from a different background, plenty to concern themselves with for a lifetime-psychophysiology, genetics, epidemiology, school behavioral assessment, and longitudinal analysis. He also refers briefly to a sixth arena he has only recently entered-prevention through preschool

Source: The Canadian Journal of Sociology

DOI: 10.2307/3339779

Authors: Travis Hirschi, Sarnoff Mednick, Karl O. Christiansen

Institution: University of Southern California

Language: French

Topic: Crime Patterns and Interventions

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W566569874

FWCI: 45.94

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Cited by: 308

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