Nature and Nurture?
Mass Media
- Buchen et al
- A mix of both factors required
- One cannot be fully to blame over the other
- Both play vital role in the creation of criminal behaviour
The Stephen Mobley Case"Genetic Predisposition"
- Brunner et al
- Mortal Kombat
- More aggression displayed from those with more violent experience
- Modern media consumption can be to blame for violent behaviour
- Supports nature
- Trialed during the 90's
- Family has a history of violence
- Early example of genetics being used as a defense in court
So does such gene exist?
Enzyme influence? Brunner
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Introduction
- Robert Merton, Sociologist
- Stems from positive feedback between behaviour and belief
- Anti-Social Behaviour Order
- Provides support for nurture
- Conducted a study on a Dutch family
- Males suffer from borderline mental retardation
- Monoamine Oxidase A
- Violent behaviour linked to the deficit?
- Nature versus Nurture, Francis Galton 1869
- What would it would mean for humans if such gene existed?
Concentric Zones
Finish Prisoners and MAO-A
- Theorised by Shaw And McKay, 1942
- Identified 5 zones of a city
- Zone 2 deemed most deviant
- Melissa Hogenboom
- Combination of genes
- Cadherin 13 variant
- 13 times more likely to re-offend than those without
Is There Such A Thing As A Criminal Gene?
Is there such thing as a criminal gene?
- Sam Retallack-Hall