David Wasserman / Robert Wachbroit (eds.)

Genetics and Criminal Behavior

Herausgeber: Maclean, Douglas; Wasserman, David; Wachbroit, Robert Samuel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 565g
• ISBN-13: 9780521627283
• ISBN-10: 0521627281
• Artikelnr.: 22353615

Inhaltsangabe

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.